Fin was watching a past life unfold and had zero ability to intervene and maximum ability to have opinions, and the opinions were loud and getting louder.
River's grief intensified but the resolve underneath it didn't waver. The combination was wrong, the emotional equivalent of a woman crying at a funeral she'd already attended, mourning losses that hadn't occurred yet, grieving a future she was actively working to prevent.
River knew something. Lucian could feel it through the matebond the way you feel a change in pressure before a storm, and the storm was already inside her, and she was walking into it on purpose.
What is she about to do?
