Chara woke up, dazed, and looked around the room, shocked to find, it was an overgrown garden in here. She looks up, and sees the light of the sun. That must have been what had grown all this. She hears a voice down a long overgrown hallway...
She looked away-toward the windows. "I can hear your heart," she said quietly.
He wasn't sure how to respond, so he said nothing, and drained his tea, even as it burned his mouth. "When I sleep," she murmured, "I can hear your heart beating through the stone."
- A Court of Wings and Ruin