I needed to tell Gia what had happened, needed someone who understood this fight to confirm I'd done the right thing. The exhaustion from forcing my way into that woman's mind still weighed on me, but I pushed through it and transitioned to the in-between space.
The grey mist formed around me and Gia appeared almost immediately. She took one look at my face and knew something had changed.
"You found it," she said.
"Found it and stopped it from killing a child." I explained everything, how I'd tracked the Whisperer to a woman at a pool, forced my way into her corrupted mind, broken the entity's hold by reinforcing real memories against planted lies. The woman and her daughter were both alive because I'd intervened.
Gia listened without interrupting, her expression shifting from concerne
