***Cassius***
The world looked different from horseback.
Or maybe it wasn't the world that had changed, but me. I'd died and come back, after all. Everything should look different after that.
Kael rode beside me, silent and watchful as Raizel had promised. He kept a respectful distance, never pushing conversation, just a steady presence ensuring I reached my destination safely.
We'd been traveling for three days now, and with each mile that separated me from Ravenshollow, from my old life, from everything I'd been before, I felt something loosen in my chest.
The villages we passed through felt lighter somehow. People moved differently, talked differently, at one inn where we stopped for the night, I overheard a conversation between two merchants.
"Did you hear? The council approved the education reforms, all children, regardless of designation will attend school together now."
