All Chapters of The Art Of Dying : Chapter 51 - Chapter 54

MIA'S POVI woke to darkness and pain.Not the soft darkness of sleep. Not the gentle ache of healing. This was different. Sharp. Wrong. Like someone had taken sandpaper to the inside of my skull."She's awake," someone said. Axel. His voice was closer than I expected.I tried to open my eyes. The world swam. Blurred. Slowly came into focus.Axel's face appeared above me, relief flooding his features. "Mia. Thank god.""What...." My throat was raw. "What happened?""The Enforcer. You erased part of it. Used too much power. You've been unconscious for eighteen hours."Eighteen hours. I tried to sit up. Everything protested."Easy," Axel said, helping me. "Kara said you need to take it slow. Your brain was hemorrhaging.""Kara?""Survivor. Been stuck in the Abattoir for two years. She saved your life."I looked around. We were in a cave. Supplies stacked against walls. Medical equipment I didn't recognize scattered around. And there, sitting by the entrance was a woman I'd never seen b

MIA'S POVErina's screams tore through the darkness like nothing I'd ever heard before. Not pain. Worse than pain. It was the sound of someone being unmade. Dissolved. Erased from existence one piece at a time."ERINA!" I shouted into the void, but my voice felt small. Swallowed by the absolute darkness that pressed against us from all sides."We can't see her!" Axel's voice came from somewhere to my left. "The darkness is too complete!"He was right. The crystal Dracula had given us for light had stopped working the moment Erina had wandered off. Like the Void itself had smothered it. Now we were blind, lost, and one of our team was dissolving into whispers.Unacceptable.I reached for my power. Felt for those threads of reality that I'd learned to see, to manipulate, to cut when necessary. But here in the Void, they were different. Weaker. Like trying to grab smoke."Mia, what are you doing?" Bree asked. I could hear the fear in her voice."Creating light." I pulled at the threads h