Location: Thornhaven Village - No-Man's-Land, Northern Territories
Time: Day 224 - 14 Voidmarch, 9938 AZI
Realm: Mid Realm
Lyria woke screaming.
Not the half-strangled gasp of normal nightmares. Not the confused whimper of bad dreams fading with dawn.
This was visceral. Raw. The kind of scream that tore throat tissue and made the vocal cords bleed.
Her mother burst through the door three heartbeats later, wings half-unfurled in panic, Aetherwing essence crackling silver-blue around her hands. Father followed, slower but steady, one hand on the hunting knife at his belt.
"Lyria!" Kaela's wings folded tight against her back as she rushed to the bed. "Sweetheart, what's wrong?"
But Lyria couldn't answer. Couldn't breathe. Couldn't think past the images still flooding her mind like a dam had broken somewhere deep in her skull.
She saw everything.
All at once.
