Clara’s POV“Hold her shoulders down, Clara, she is going to bite through her tongue!” Nikolai shouted, his boots sliding against the slick, damp concrete floor as he lunged forward.“I am trying!” I yelled back, my palms slipping against my mother’s cold, sweat-slicked skin. “Mama, look at me! You need to breathe. Just breathe!”Her teeth clicked together in violent, rhythmic clicks, her entire body shaking under the thin, stolen gray wool blankets we managed to scavenge from a dumpster behind a rail yard. The clinic in the upper district had kept her pumped full of heavy, medical-grade sedatives for months to keep her compliant. Now, going cold turkey in this pitch-black hole was throwing her nervous system into a catastrophic spiral.“We need real heat,” Nikolai growled, his knuckles white as he pressed his weight against her knees to stop the violent muscle spasms. “She is freezing from the inside out.”“Look around us, Nikolai. There is no heat here,” I said, a wave of bitter re
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