CHAPTER SEVEN
I wanted to die.
I lay stretched across three chairs with a damp cold cloth over my forehead. My eyes were shut and my stomach was like a bouncy castle with a dozen children bouncing around inside of it.
Arian’s face floated into view. “How do you feel now?”
I opened one eye and glared at her. “Like I’ve been through a terrible betrayal.”
Her face drooped and her eyes grew large. “Do you. . .do you truly believe that?”
I closed my eyes and sighed. “No, but I don’t feel very well.”
Arian’s eyes lit up and she used both hands to grasp my arm. “Perhaps we might visit Grandmother now.”
I waved her away. “Go on without me. I need a little more out-of-body experience before I’m sure I’m still alive.”
“But Grandmother has a cure for such maladies.”
My eyes shot ope
