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I tried, I really tried, but the last thing I saw before everything went dark was his expression, not anger, not betrayal, but something far worse. Realization, and then I was gone. Swept into the cold hands of darkness without knowing what the fuck was going to happen next. Shit.

Ayla Couldn’t I just catch fucking break? Well, apparently not. I was stuck in some kind of trance, if that was even the right word to describe it. But one thing was sure… I did not like it, not one bit. Everywhere was so dark. Not the kind of darkness that comes with nightfall, but something far more suffocating. It was like the shadows themselves had weight, pressing against my skin, crawling into my lungs. My breath was caught and my heart was pounding… I could not see a thing.

I understood that much, distantly, the way you understand facts during an emergency without feeling the weight of them yet. But the deeper thing, the thing that had let him become the wolf at all, stayed dark and silent under my hands no matter how much warmth I poured into it. I could not reach it. I was not strong enough. †††††††††††††††††††††††††

Darkness began to creep in, slow and suffocating, swallowing the world piece by piece. And in the end… I didn’t have the strength to resist. I gave in.

That was everything. The darkness wasn’t creeping anymore. It was rushing in, a wave I couldn’t fight, didn’t want to fight. I let it take me. Let go of consciousness, of pain, of fear. And fell into nothing.

I couldn’t stop. And then, just as I thought I couldn’t take it anymore, the darkness began to recede. But something else was coming. Something worse.

mysterious, especially now? I sat on the floor, my knees pulled to my chest as I tried to make sense of it all. The darkness that had once seemed so far away was now closing in, and I didn’t know where to turn. Tomorrow was going to be the hardest day of my life.

And the fact that he said he can't control it when it comes. "Yes, darkness." She looked back at me. "Don't be afraid, you have your own darkness too, just not quite the same as his." She flicked another pebble-like thing into the fire, it roared a bit louder. "His was born out of unresolved pain and grief, a more,... malicious, kind of darkness." Okay, this was not making me feel better. I looked at her, my mouth shut.

VIVIAN I opened my eyes. But I was in an unfamiliar place. The darkness that surrounded me was not only palpable, it was suffocating. I tried to breathe but my lungs seemed to be constricted with something. I stretched forth my hands to guide my path but something seemed to be on my way. I tore at the barrier but it only grew thicker. It was the darkness. Was there any way out of here? How could I fight something I could not even see?

The silence that followed was unbearable, a chasm yawning between them, filled with all the things neither knew how to say. And in the darkness, the night stretched on, refusing to release them into dawn.