The castle's corridors felt colder than usual, shadows stretching long and foreboding across the stone floor. I could feel the chill creeping into my bones as I walked, my footsteps echoing hollowly in the silence.
My thoughts were a tangled mess, emotions knotted together in a confusing, suffocating mass. I couldn't shake the heaviness that had settled over me, a weight that pressed down on my chest with every breath I took.
I kept replaying that conversation with Seraphina in my head, over and over again, as if by doing so I could somehow change the outcome.
Her voice, trembling with pain and frustration, echoed in my mind, each word like a dagger to the heart. I'd hurt her, I knew that. But I couldn't bring myself to let her in, not now, not when I didn't even know who I was anymore.
