Lord Caelus Marche, called the Eagle by those who feared him, had built his aerie high in the Carpathian peaks. A man of sharp hunger and broken compass, he collected rare things: falcons with gilded claws, mirrors that wept, and at last — the Morvain sisters.
So he took Lyra.
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“Not deep enough,” Lyra replied.
Lira, the white, spoke in hymns. She could calm storms with a lullaby and had once made a dying wolf pup lick her hand. Lyra, the red, carried a scar from brow to chin — a mark she’d given herself to stop men from confusing her with her sister. She sharpened her tongue on silence and kept a knife in her corset. Lord Caelus Marche, called the Eagle by those
She did not sing. She bit the hand that fed her. She threw his prized peregrine falcon out the window — it flew free, laughing. The Eagle should have been furious. Instead, he fell deeper. But every night, just before sleep, they check the locks
Lira and Lyra. Twin roses.