Emma split herself in half with a scream that shattered three dimensions.
One half of her body glowed bright silver - alive and burning with life energy. The other half turned dark as midnight - dead and cold as winter ice.
"I can do this," she gasped, even as pain beyond description tore through every part of her being. "I have to do this."
Kael reached for her living half while Marcus's ghost grabbed her dead half from the spirit world.
"Hold on, Emma!" Kael shouted as her life energy tried to pull away from death.
"Don't let go!" Marcus called from the other side as her death energy fought against life.
Emma felt like she was being ripped apart by two giant monsters. Her soul was stretching between two impossible states. No one was meant to be completely alive and completely dead at the same time.
But it was working.
