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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

by the stove, nipping pancakes, humming a song I hadn't heard in years. She was wearing an oversized T-shirt, her dark hair tied up in a messy bun, tattoos pecking out from

looked just like I

She looked alive.

I couldn't breathe,

my body moved on

escaped

"Stormi-?!"

wrapping tightly around her as I buried my face into her

to the ground, knocking over a chair in the process.

counter.

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

I didn't let go.

I couldn't.

squeezed my eyes shut, my entire body shaking as I clung to her. She was warm. Solid. Not

exasperated. "Geez, Stormi, did you forget how to say good morning like a normal person?

I couldn't speak.

probably trying to get

she murmured.

just enough

moment

The dam broke.

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

teasing glint in her

to cup my face. "What

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

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

in a shaky breath, my

if I let

I choked out, "I

Mariah stilled.

furrowed, confusion flickering across

was there. 1-

was something else in

couldn't quite place, her

everything will be okay,"

1 stiffened

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 gently rocked

have a bad dream, and you'd climb into my bed and cling to me just like

my eyes shut, trying

warmth

all

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