POV: Aphrodite
Some truths are sealed for a reason.
We've been moving deeper into the ruins for almost an hour since Lyra said what she said, and the air has changed in here. Not just in the way all air changes as you go deeper underground, heavier and cooler and older. Something else. The walls feel different the further in we go. Less like stone that has just been sitting here for centuries and more like stone that is aware of us.
Or aware of me specifically.
