Holdcraft Chronicles- Aki -ch. 4.5- By Seez !link! -

Three bells past dusk, the others had retired: Torben to his maps, Elara to her mending, Kael to the kind of sleep that looks like death but isn't. Aki had stayed. The day's skirmish at Broken Ford still thrummed in her fingers—the way a hollowborn's blade had sheared past her guard, close enough to shave a thread from her collar. She’d killed it, yes. Cleanly. But the kill hadn't settled her. It had woken something.

★★★★★ (5/5) – “A devastating pause between heartbeats.” Holdcraft Chronicles- Aki -Ch. 4.5- By Seez

"No." Aki finally turned to meet Elara's gaze. Her eyes were the color of rain over iron. "But I carry his steel in my spine. And some nights, I feel it wanting to sing." Three bells past dusk, the others had retired: