Chapter 21Ether: Willow
“What's going on?” Everything around me was hazy. No, it was me who was foggy. I tried to fight it but my head was so heavy, so difficult to hold up. I was in a house but it was so quiet. Still. Outside sounded different too. No humming birds, and more strange sounds I had never heard before. Oh God. What is that smell?
Fighting the heaviness I turned to call to Anne, but a woman I had never seen before was standing over me. Her skin was dry and cracked and her face was distorted. She looked like she was a hundred years old. Her clothes were tattered and dreary, like her appearance.
“Finally. I thought you'd never wake up. It took so long for you to open your eyes,” the old woman said, then I realized it was Anne, aged and sickly in a terrible way, unlike the att
