This is post 4 of 5 in the series “Palace of Glass”

Nearly ten years had passed since Aiden had set foot in Finnevar, and the placed seemed utterly alien. Each step he took seemed to distance himself from the group, as if he were a sailor who’d been at sea too long and couldn’t quite walk on land.

It was hard to put a finger on exactly what set him off. Perhaps his endless amount of sleep-deprived hours were finally extracting their toll—he certainly had the symptoms for it. His head felt...