KYTHAN BLACKTHORNE (wolf: Vexan)I paced around the room, and for the first time in my life, I felt real fear. The kind that seeped deep into bone and settled there, refusing to leave.I turned to look at her pale skin against the couch cushions, and the sight alone was breaking something in my chest. An ache I'd never felt before in my life — unfamiliar, raw, entirely new.'You really care about her,' Vexan murmured, voice thick, like he was fighting back something close to a sob. 'Kythan, I'm scared for her.' Tears clouded in his eyes, and I felt the weight of that fear settle into my own chest right alongside his.‘Nothing will happen to her.’ I told him.I never knew the poison was this bad. When my mother first mentioned it, I'd brushed it off as something minor — she'd never shown a single visible sign of it, never once complained, never slowed down. I hadn't understood, not really, not until now, watching my own aunt, a renowned physician in her own right — move around this
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