Violet
The pain, the memories, the toxin dulling everything inside me. My thoughts were fragmenting, scattering like leaves in a storm.
I couldn't hold onto any single thought long enough to act on it.
If I just stopped fighting, the pain would stop too. Palisa would take me, and I wouldn't have to feel anything anymore.
"That's it," she laughed. "There is nothing for you to live for, you worthless thing!"
'No! How dare you—'
I let out another scream as pain shot through my head.
No. I couldn't let this happen.
I would never let this wicked woman have her way!
I tried to fight back, but I was barely holding on. And I couldn't even move.
No. No. No! What poison had she used?!
I tried digging in, trying to summon the last vestiges of my syzygy but it was barely responding.
No!
"Violet…"
Zephyr's voice was barely a whisper. Thin, strained, and very weak.
"Use... me…"
Use you?!
No. I could barely even summon her.
