Chapter 264

• As Andrea permitted us to explore the vast, treetop city, he had one firm rule: stay off the forest floor
• below. When the sun finally sank beneath the horizon, casting the world in starlit splendor, a new realm awoke—a world of creatures who claimed the night as their dominion.
• Despite the exhaustion gnawing at my bones, a strange restlessness pulsed through me, making it impossible to find peace. A dull ache throbbed at the base of my skull, a constant reminder of the whirlwind my life had become. Not long ago, I’d been in Leonardo’s pack,