~Annalyn POV~
I could hear everything. That was the development I had not anticipated and had not been prepared for, and it changed the entire structure of what I understood about my situation.
For days I had been watching from a position that felt sealed, a place of pure observation with no connection to the operating layer of the body. I could see, in the way you see through glass, but there was no transmission in either direction.
Then something shifted.
I do not know whether it was Selene's work, or the accumulated ground I had been building fight by fight, or simply the entity growing less careful about the interior partition because it had no reason to expect opposition from the inside after this many days.
Whatever the cause, the seal between observation and reception cracked, and what came through was sound.
