[Sera]
Lumi's gone.
The spot where she used to curl up inside me, warm, watchful, a quiet hum in my chest, is just empty now. A hollow draft whistles through it, cold and lonely, like an abandoned room with the windows cracked open. I don't have time to grieve her properly, though. Not with this energy crashing in like a rude intruder kicking down the door.
Without her buffer, it's brutal. The force floods my veins, sharp and icy, carrying some ancient vibe that feels wrong, like it's judging me from the inside out. It prowls around, sniffing out secrets, a bloodhound on a mission. And then, it finds what it's after.
The bond.
That invisible string tethered right to my heart, stretching across the circle to him. The man who's been my obsession, my nightmare, my everything I never aske
