Alpha's Substitute Bride
The first doppelganger, now bleeding from its mouth and struggling to speak, declares, "The way out is after all the blood goes away. You cowards can stay here with Us and Me to guard the castle; I'm going to visit Mom and Dad BY MYSELF!"
I remember Jovielyn's advice about calming the mind. She'd said the path to enlightenment is fraught with strife, pain, and anguish. "This certainly qualifies as anguish," I think. If meditation can help a dying woman forget her fate, surely it can help me gather the fragments of my shattered self.
As the nonsensical chatter continues in the background, I close my eyes and concentrate...
"Inhale, exhale, one..."
"Inhale, exhale, two..."
"Inhale, exhale, thr
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