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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

She was wearing an oversized T-shirt, her

just like I

She looked alive.

I couldn't breathe,

I could even think, my body

sound escaped me as I hinged

"Stormi-?!"

tightly around

chair in the process. The pan clattered

counter.

beneath me. "Okay, seriously-are you crazy, kid?

I didn't let go.

I couldn't.

clung to her. She was warm. Solid. Not some ghost.

did you forget how to say good morning like a

I couldn't speak.

her shift slightly beneath me, probably trying to get

she murmured.

pulled back just enough to see her

the moment

The dam broke.

poured down my face, hot and unstoppable. My breath came in ragged gasps, my chest tightening so

teasing glint in her eyes vanished,

up to cup

throat closed up.

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tears, her fingers gentle. "Breathe, okay? t

shaky breath, my hands still gripping her

if I let

choked out, "I thought

Mariah stilled.

flickering

1-1 saw it. I was there. 1- Ancher sub wracked my body. "I

but there was something else

I couldn't quite place, her thumb still

everything will be

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

murmured after a moment. "You'd have a bad dream, and

shut, trying to

warmth

that all

Ab

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