✦Dolly✦
Everyone looked at me differently after the vineyard. They tried not to. That was almost worse. My mother, who had arrived at some point, kept touching my arm as if she needed to make sure I was still solid. My father stayed so close I nearly tripped over him twice. Elias looked ready to bite anyone who breathed too loudly in my direction.
Conrad and Callum thanked me.
That made me want to cry.
I hadn’t known what I was doing. I hadn’t chosen it. I hadn’t saved anything on purpose. Something inside me had answered the darkness, and the vines had listened. It was the only explanation I had. And that should have felt good. It didn’t. It made me feel less human. Which was stupid, because I had never been human.
Still.
After Blaise checked my hands and decided I wasn’t about to
