Seraphine's POV The voices in my head were screaming and I could not tell which thoughts were mine anymore. "It is too late for me," I had said to Calista. The words felt true. Final. But something inside me still fought. Still clawed for air beneath the darkness drowning me. The orb pulsed in rhythm with my heartbeat and each beat brought more pain. More corruption. More of whatever I was becoming. "Seraphine, please," Calista said. She looked at me with those eyes. The ones that saw too much. That was understood too much. "It is not too late. You can still fight this. You can still choose differently." "You do not understand." My voice cracked. "The orb is not just giving me power. It is eating me. Consuming everything I am. Every memory. Every feeling. Every piece of the woman I used to be. Soon there will be nothing left but darkness and hunger."&n
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