Silence greeted me as consciousness returned.
Breath gone. Nothing remains.
Stillness held everything. Not a twitch, not a shift. Just…nothing happening.
A glow existed, yet offered no brightness. Instead, it stretched on forever, a shimmering, breathing haze of silver.
I didn’t weigh anything, though a terrible feeling pressed down. The earth, assuming it was earth, moved like water.
Honestly, I briefly believed my time had come.
Then, a sound reached my ears.
The silence held a murmur, distant, endless, resembling ocean echoes within a spiral.
Vivian.
A jolt went through me; I swiveled around. “Wren?”
The glassy expanse showed a copy of me, yet it remained still while I shifted. It wasn’t mimicking my actions, instead, it simply…was. A silent double held captive within the shee
