ECHOES OF THE PAST
"To the state you were in when you died the first time."
"To death," I whispered. "I'm dying, Damian. Actually dying this time, permanently, because the only thing keeping me alive was the resurrection The Severance just destroyed."
Around us, Guardian medical personnel were realizing the same thing. They descended with emergency equipment, trying desperately to stabilize me, but how do you treat someone whose fundamental biology is collapsing?
"No," Damian said fiercely, his arms tightening around me. "You don't get to sacrifice yourself now. We won, Aria. We defeated Richard, saved thousands of hunters, stopped the bioweapon. You don't get to die after all of that."
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