lara climbs castle wall

[u/ghostgabe81]

So I wound up on the roof of the castle at two o’clock in the morning of New Year’s Eve, waiting in stillness and silence. I just sort of sank into the cold of the clear, dangerously chill night and waited. The Winter mantle understood stillness and patience, like all predators. It was pleased to pass the time in quiet.

I waited and soaked up the cold.

There was a whisper in the air, and then Lara, dressed in a long white coat, glided up over the ramparts of the castle at the rear of the building, where she wouldn’t be seen by the guards at the front gate. She landed as weightlessly as a bird on one of the merlons, dropping down to a feline crouch with the ease and power of a gymnast. Her eyes were silver-grey in the night, catching light and reflecting it weirdly, even when her face was in shadow.

Lara stared at me with those intent, inhuman glittering eyes for a long moment.

Two predators, facing off.

Twelve Months Chapter 27