Help me! Pain. Help me.
The sound of Delilah’s dragon in distress caused Brogan and Barrack to instantly reach for her. Belatedly Brogan realized the shattering sound was from the plate hitting the kitchen floor.
She was tilting toward him unnaturally, and he caught a glimpse of her eyes wide with pain, fear, and confusion, her hand beginning to rise to her chest before it fell limply to her side as her eyes rolled back in her head and she collapsed.
He registered her soft, anguished moan seconds after she uttered it, and vaguely heard Barrack cry “Delilah!” Time felt displaced and disconnected as they caught her. The twin symbiots on her wrists and the one around her neck dissolved and slid beneath her skin.
The two larger symbiots burst into the room with such force that the dining r
