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Every year, Drithen settles over the floating isle of Hyacynth like a held breath - five weeks of twilight, unease, and rituals nobody fully believes in anymore.
This year it brought something else.
Rhenan has always loved too easily in a world that doesn't deserve it, and he's never quite understood why that's considered strange. Madi has never let anyone close enough to find out what she's capable of - which is considerable, and occasionally catastrophic.
They were strangers before tonight. Then the ground split open, something ancient stirred beneath the water, and two people who have never needed anyone found themselves standing in the same impossible place at the same impossible moment.
Some collisions change everything.
While We Wonder - where the stakes are higher than either of them could have imagined, and falling might mean more than one thing.