Hailey’s POVThe air here tastes different.Thinner. Colder. Sharper against my lungs.The sky above is not the sky I know. The stars burn in unfamiliar patterns, larger and closer, like we are standing beneath a wound in space.Aaron stands slightly in front of me.Protective.Instinctively.Which almost makes me laugh, if anything about this felt funny.The figures in the distance begin to move.Not rushing.Not threatening.Just approaching with a quiet certainty that makes my pulse quicken.“Stay close,” Aaron murmurs.I don’t answer.Because I’m still feeling it.Dylan.Faint now.But there.A thread stretched impossibly thin across whatever distance separates us.It hurts.Not physically.But like a limb that has been pulled too far from the body.One of the approaching figures steps into clearer view.She looks almost human.Almost.Her skin carries a faint luminescent sheen, like moonlight trapped beneath it. Her eyes are pale, nearly colorless, and when she looks at me, it fe
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