Sofia One moment I was looking into Devon's eyes, adjusting to the rush of connections in my mind but still feeling peaceful and well in spite of them, and the next my body was flooded with agonizing nerve pain, like the feeling of getting shocked by electricity or hitting a funny bone, but so many, many times worse. I-who had become so accustomed to silently enduring pain-could not hold in my shriek, and then there was a snap as something broke, or maybe disconnected in my leg. "What's wrong?" Devon, entirely naked, asked as he dropped to his knees beside me. "What's wrong baby?" His voice was full of desperation, and I wanted to give him answers, but I had none to give. I didn't know what was happening. Something else popped, and snapped, and I cried out again. "I don't know, Devon!

