There was a knock on the doors to my chamber—an incredibly loud one at that. To say that I wasn’t caught off guard, would be nothing more than a lie. My head had whipped around faster than I had known to be possible, and I was sure that I would feel the ache from doing so, tomorrow. It was a given. I was over the threshold of being able to move that fast, and yet, even though my mind knew it, it seemed like my body hadn’t yet gotten the message.
“Who is it?”
Whoever it was, clearly they didn’t intend to come in here without me giving them permission to do so. I took comfort in that fact, although I knew that my assumptions weren’t nearly enough to classify as a solid foundation.
“It’s me. Marcel.”
And just like that, my frown deepened. I couldn’t deny that Marcel would have been th
