~LYRA'S POV~
I woke up feeling like my body had been through something I hadn't agreed to.
Not the sharp pain of a training injury, I knew what that felt like. This was deeper. The kind of ache that sits in the muscle below the muscle, the kind you feel when you breathe in too fast or shift your weight the wrong way.
My shoulders were tight. My legs felt heavy from somewhere above the knee down. And my jaw, that was the strange one. Tender in a way I couldn't explain, not like I'd been hit, more like I'd been clenching it for hours while I slept.
I lay there for a moment, running through the obvious explanations. Kael had been pushing hard on physical endurance all week, yesterday he'd had me running form drills until my lungs protested and then made me do them again, slower, which was somehow worse.
