Anna's POVThe pain peaked and then everything went white.Not darkness, white, blinding and total, and inside it I felt myself come apart at the seams in the most literal way possible, like a single thread being pulled in two directions by two equally strong hands and instead of snapping it just, separated, cleanly, into two.Then I was on the ground and the white was fading and Ryker and Ronald were on either side of me, both talking, both touching my face and my shoulders and neither of them making any sound I could process yet.Sound came back slowly."Anna, Anna look at me, Anna," Ronald, his voice cracked on my name."I'm here," I said."You were gone for almost two minutes," Ryker said. "You stopped breathing.""I stopped breathing?""For about thirty seconds, yes," Ronald said, and the tightness around his eyes told me those thirty seconds had not been pleasant for him.I sat up and looked at my hands, they were human again, no claws, no gold, no silver, just my hands, but the
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