Who could it be?

Karina.

The air grew more suffocating with every second that passed after. I felt my throat tightening the more I remained in place. My tongue was more like lead, weighing me down through the deafening silence.

It was all too much.

He seemed to have the same idea, considering how he remained equally speechless, as though dumbstruck.

Yet he never stopped staring. His green eyes pierced me, judgemental even through the shock.

The same eyes that Levi bore.

My mind raced with no solutions.

What was I supposed to do?

I drifted to Isabella who looked awestruck to Leo and the other two older people.

I didn’t want to figure it out.

During all my years as a traveler, there was one thing that saved me even in the most dire of situations, even in the earliest days when my stealth hadn't grown. It was the instinct I'd learned to hone, the one that allowed me to leave unnoticed whenever there was no other way. It was my flight response, the urge to run away before things got more dangerous. Be