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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

years. She was wearing an oversized T-shirt,

like

She looked alive.

I couldn't breathe,

my body moved on its

escaped me as I

"Stormi-?!"

wrapping tightly around

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

counter.

"Okay, seriously-are you crazy,

I didn't let go.

I couldn't.

body shaking as I clung to her. She was warm.

"Geez, Stormi, did you forget how to say good morning like a normal person? Or do we tackle people

I couldn't speak.

shift slightly beneath me, probably trying to get a better look at my face.

murmured. "What's

pulled back just enough to see

moment I

The dam broke.

poured down my face, hot and unstoppable. My breath came in ragged

changed instantly. The teasing glint in her eyes vanished, replaced by

whispered, reaching up to cup my face. "What

but my throat closed up. I couldn't get the

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

shaky breath, my hands still gripping

if I

choked out, "I thought you

Mariah stilled.

confusion flickering across her

I was

softened, but there was something else in

place, her thumb

everything will

1 stiffened

I knew what I had

I had lived it.

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exhaled and pulled me against her, letting me rest my head on her shoulder as she

"You'd have a bad dream, and

squeezed my eyes shut, trying to ground

warmth

that all it

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