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Warmth.

It was the first thing I felt as my body stirred. A soft, comforting with wrapped around me.A soft, familiar warmth, the kind that seeped into my skin and made my muscles relax instinctively. It was nothing like the pain I remembered the sharp agony of bones breaking, the unbearable pressure crushing me as I plummeted from the mountaintop. My fingers twitched, brushing against something familiar- sheets.

A bed?

My eyes snapped open, and I sat up abruptly, my heart hammering in my chest. The room was too familiar.

The moonlit curtains swayed lightly with the morning breeze, the scent of lavender and vanilin-lingering in the air. My bookshelves were lined with novels, my desk was slightly messy with scattered notes and pens, and my nightstand still had the small framed. picture of Mariah and me-

I was in my room.

My room.

home.

Panic gripped me. My mates- Whe

Then, I heard it.

Where were they? The battle-Mother-the Shadow Weaver. Had it all been a dream? A cruel illusion?

I froze.

Get your butt here before your breakfast gets cold!"

That voice-

I knew it.

Mariah.

The name sent a shockwave through my body.

Mariah was dead. I had mourned her. I had felt it.

Then how-?

Her voice rang out again, louder and sharper this time.

"Storm!! Did you hear me?!"

threw off the blankets, my feet hitting the flour before I even registered moving. My heart pounded against my ribs as I stumbled forward, barely able to breathe.l bolted through the hallway, my pulse roaring in my ears.

1 skidded to a stop at the doorway of the kitchen.

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And there she was

Mariah

pancakes, humming a song I hadn't heard in years. She was wearing an oversized

just like I remembered

She looked alive.

I couldn't breathe,

could even think, my body

choked sound escaped

"Stormi-?!"

tightly around her as I buried my face into

chair in the process. The pan clattered onto the floor, pancakes flipping onto

counter.

groaned beneath me. "Okay, seriously-are you

I didn't let go.

I couldn't.

I clung to her. She was warm. Solid. Not

morning

I couldn't speak.

me, probably trying to get a better look at my face. Then

she murmured.

just enough

moment

The dam broke.

unstoppable. My breath came in ragged gasps, my

The teasing glint in her eyes vanished, replaced by genuine

she whispered, reaching up to cup my face. "What

my throat closed up.

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tears, her fingers gentle. "Breathe, okay? t breathe. Tell me what's

shaky breath, my hands

if I

out, "I thought you

Mariah stilled.

furrowed, confusion flickering across

it. I was

there was something else

her thumb still brushing

everything will be

1 stiffened

knew what I

I had lived it.

Jadn't 12

me rest my head on her shoulder

of when you were little," she murmured after a moment. "You'd have a bad dream,

shut, trying to ground

warmth

all it

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