A Gift And A Curse
Morgana
Time slows down, her breath catching in her throat, as she watches them fall. The templars, Irving, Lily... herself.
Morgana looks back at her best friend, her big brother, the man she has loved and trusted since she was four years old, and she no longer knows who she is seeing. She is normally confident, sometimes even flippant, but now she is on the floor, a croaked word falling from her lips: "Jowan?"
He ignores her, rushing to Lily, but there is no resentment. She watches one more of those he loves treating him like a monster, the initiate, his former lover, pushing him away, and something in her breaks.
As he runs, as fast and as far as possible, for his life, she swears that, just once, he looks back at her.
He has always known she wants to escape the Tower, and there was a time she would have run with him... but not now.
Not like this.