“Lux, are you okay?” Ravi says, leaning down to try and hold onto me, but I shove him off with the grace of a startled cat.
“Get away from me, god, I hate you!” I shout, my voice raw with frustration. “How could you make me see that? Shapeshifters and all that mystical crap—it’s not real! None of it’s real! You hurt me, Ravi! You hurt me just so we could find some random person who’s about to get murdered! You made me do all this for nothing!”
I’m fuming, my whole body shaking with the adrenaline. It’s like I’ve been punked, but no one’s laughing.
“I told you, it was all an experiment! I had to do it to save his life!” Ravi snaps back, his voice rising. “No more innocent people can get murdered, Lux! What do you mean it’s not real? Do you think all these deaths, people getting killed by
