Rex’s POV When I opened my eyes, I was blinded by white light. Not the soft kind, not the warm glow of dawn, this was sharp, endless, swallowing everything around me. The last thing I remembered was darkness. The pain of my body giving out. The image of Zane, broken and bleeding, right before everything went black. Zane. My heart lurched, and I shot upright, stumbling to my feet. “No, no, no—where is he?!” My voice cracked in the emptiness, my pulse hammering in my ears. I spun in every direction, desperate for some kind of door, a break in the blank walls, anything that could lead me back. Back to them. Back to him. But the room was empty. Hollow. A void without edges. And inside me, Ria was silent. Too silent. I paced, restless, the hollow sound of my steps echoing back at me. It reminded me of something of the in-between place I’d been trapped in before my first shift. But this wasn’t the same. That void had felt suffocating, like it was crushing my soul into dust. This wa
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