CHAPTER 79 AMAYA

The new change that we had brought  didn’t settle all at once.

It moved slowly, unevenly, threading its way through the pack in quiet glances and unspoken questions, in the way people paused just a little longer when they saw me now, no longer uncertain of who I was, but still learning what that meant for them.

And for him I knew it was worse..

Julian didn’t say it, he didn’t need to but I could see it.

It lived in the space he kept between himself and everyone else, in the way he stood just outside conversations, present but never fully part of them, like he...