Chapter Sixteen - Flight 

Natalie Grayson

Buzzing noises filled my ears as I strained them to hear some sort of reality in this dark abyss. My body felt numb and weightless. However, I felt like I was too heavy and I was gradually sinking towards the ocean floor.

This was my second time fainting and I knew that it was the work of the mark that was etched onto my shoulder as it had been before. I could not hear any words, just the buzzing of nothingness only.

I wanted to wake up desperately, and my fingers were even itching to just move. However, I could not control my own body and it was as if I had lost all my control too long ago. My legs, just like the rest of my body did not want to move, and no matter how much I screamed inside my brain, it didn't even make a small action.

Even my wolf was nowhere to be seen. I was trapped in my mind yet no traces of Raya lurked in the shadows. I knew she was hiding, or she had left and I was just like a normal human — vulnerable to everything and anything.

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