THOMAS
I don't know what being human feels like anymore.
Maybe my humanity was gone the first time I obeyed Azure's command without question; Maybe it was when I stopped dreaming, the master takes your senses first-the little things: taste, touch, the warmth of a sunrise on your skin, soon, you forget laughter, then pain too leaving obedience.
Cold, unquestioning, absolute but something went wrong inside me when I saw Marissa lying there, still alive.
I was supposed to kill her, One blow to finish it off but I hadn't and now I had to pay for it.
Azure's den was suffocating.
Its air was heavier than stone, with an unspeakable horror clinging to it that clung to my skin like sweat. Black candles by the hundreds fluttered and cast shadows twisting in agony along the walls. The fires d
