SERAPHINA What was happening? I stood frozen in the center of my room, back at my pack house, a room I had never dared to enter since my mother’s death. I looked around, feeling an unsettling heaviness in the air. My eyes fell on the toy sword I used to love, the same one I had played with when I was seven, and the storybooks that were scattered across the shelf, still untouched, frozen in time.Then came the familiar sound, the soft clink of the parrot’s cage hanging by the window.“My parrot...” I whispered, my heart swelling with joy. I rushed to the window, a smile spreading across my face as I saw my pet, alive, fluttering inside its cage.But as soon as my fingers brushed the cage, it fell. The bird’s head snapped back unnaturally, and my stomach lurched. I gasped, horrified, my breath catching painfully in my throat. My eyes moved past the cage, and there, in the distance by the water’s edge, I saw the image of my friend falling, her head crashing into the rocks. Her lifeless
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