Chapter 10

When the plane landed in Pyralis, light rain was falling. Cheyenne pulled her suitcase out of the terminal and stepped into a city that felt like another world. The air smelled different here, the sounds were foreign, and for the first time, she felt that she'd left Nolan behind for good. From this day on, she was just an ordinary woman starting over in a foreign land. With the little savings she had left, she rented a tiny apartment in the old part of town and spent three full days setting it up. She folded her few remaining clothes into the closet, placed a secondhand easel she'd bought from a flea market by the desk, and finally tore up the fake marriage certificate copy and tossed it into the trash. When she was done, it felt like she'd been reborn. Before coming to Pyralis, she'd reapplied to an art and design program. And today, she finally received the acceptance letter from one of the world's top art academies. To pay for tuition and rent, she found a part-time job at a gall