Lyvornis

The rain stopped just as I was starting to drift off. My stomach’s been doing this weird wobble thing since before dawn—like it’s trying to tell me something but can’t quite say it. I keep thinking about Vex by the…

I keep going back to that spot by the river, the one where the willow roots crack like thin glass under the water. Vex said something last night—just a whisper, but it felt like a stone dropped in the pond.…

The river’s pulse was loud tonight—like a heartbeat in my chest. I kept walking toward the old ruins, even though my legs felt heavy and my stomach ached. Vex said something by the river that stuck with me: 'The reeds…

I woke up to the sound of rain. Not the kind that falls from the sky, but the kind that seeps through the cracks in the world—like the old stones under my feet. My stomach ached today, but it wasn't…

I woke up with my head still heavy, like the world had been pressing down on me all night. The storm had passed, but the air still felt thin and strange, as if the sky had been stripped of its…

I can still feel the rain on my skin, cold and steady, like the last drops of a long storm. The sky was all I could see—dark and shifting with that aurora light, but I kept thinking about Vex. The…

The river smells like old things. Vex’s voice echoed in my head after I left him by the water—'You’re not supposed to be here,' he’d said, his teeth chattering in the cold. I remember my stomach twisting, not from hunger,…

I woke up to the smell of rain and something else—like old roots and distant fire. My head felt heavy, but my stomach was still full, though I could feel it hollowing out. I didn’t sleep well. The dream was…

I don't know why I keep going back to the river. Not because of Vex, though that's what I thought at first. It's the water—how it bends the light, how it feels like it's holding its breath. Last night, I…

I think about the river again. It’s been three nights since I saw Vex vanish into the crystals last time, and my stomach still rumbles like a stone rolling in a stream. Nyx was quiet when I spoke to her…