✶Elizabeth's POV✶ I'd sat there, letting tears fall freely down my face . . .but for what? Just so I could really feel the pain, the way the bonds pull tightened at the sight of him? Of how much love was pushed back into my heart, at all the feelings I've tried to drown out? Footsteps sounded in the distance, the game was still on and I knew exactly where to channel my anger. That's what had me wiping my tears away, what had me get to my feet. I would speak of this until the game was over until I expressed my pain through something else. I retreated back to my flag, to where the base was. My teammates looked towards me as I returned—especially my people, some of who shifted into their wold form and some who stayed human. Even some of the Fae on my team shifted into their inner animal

