Chapter 5
Chapter 5: The Weight of Silence
After the morning's training, a quiet conversation with Corvus reveals the truth about his mother's death and the secret he's been carrying since the war.
The morning came too fast, dragging a pale sun across a sky that still looked bruised from the night before. I found the training yard already occupied when I walked out, but by the time we finished drilling and the mist burned off, the students had scattered to their own routines. Areum was in the kitchen, humming as she stacked the last of the pastries. Silas had disappeared toward the stables, muttering something about checking the tack. Jax lounged against a post, pretending to read a book he hadn't turned a page of in ten minutes.
Corvus sat alone on the far bench, his back against the wall, his eyes fixed on something in the middle distance. His practice sword lay beside him, untouched since we'd finished.
I hesitated. Areum's words from earlier still echoed in my head. I think Corvus likes you. I'd dismissed it as her romantic imagination, but now, watching him sit there in the quiet, I felt a pull I couldn't name.
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