She opens her eyes as the fury continues, pinning me with her glare. Her gaze reached into my soul as I spin the music back to the simple melody at its core—our melody. A moment of recognition washes over her, followed by regret, fear, terror. An e...
He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.
Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.
The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything that has happened so far. But no answers ...
My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.
Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.
My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.