GAS & GHOSTS
Rylan's POV
Pain was the first thing that awoke me, not awareness. I was in agony, every muscle in my body shrieking as if I’d been ripped into pieces and stitched back up wrong. My bones felt like they were cracked. My joints were swollen and stiff. I attempted to shift and pain stabbed through my breast. I was silent for a moment and had to think a bit of what had happened, where I was.
Then it came back in pieces. The crown. The power surging in hot, terrible waves through me, too much for any human body to contain. Kiera in labor. The explosion. Darkness.
I willed my eyes to open and then immediately wished I hadn't. White walls. White ceiling. The odor of antiseptic and steel. Another cell. I was in another damn cell. My hands balled into fists and I forced myself up,
