Chapter Twenty-Nine: In A Daze

It felt like I was floating.

I couldn't tell what was a dream or a memory, but all these pictures were playing out in front of me. I saw my first day of training, my mom making eggs over a brick stove, Elijah tucking me in. I saw everything, even things I had forgotten about, shimmer by in the air around me.

It felt like a bad joke as I lay in the darkness, staring out into nothing but fleeting moments. The pieces of my life rummaging around inside the walls of smokey black. They were so close, I could almost feel them.

Elijah... and my mom.

I watched, blankly, as the happy memories faded.

They never did last long, did they?

Now, I could remember my father and the fire.

The intense pain and Brandon disappearing.

I remembered Timmy crying and Morax's voice inside my head. But the rest that played out, I wasn't sure of. I could faintly recall the scent of cherry blossoms, too. The scent had been intoxicating.

But by then, the sky had been too dark for me to see anymore.

So why