2012
----Unknown POV----
“Edmund! Where is Edmund?”
“RED!”
I jolted upright, disoriented by the darkness cloaking the shack—or was it something deeper? I could feel her calling to me. It was disconcerting, surreal. Who was this woman? Why did I feel such a visceral connection to someone I’d never met?
And yet, I knew with every fiber of my being that I didn’t know her—at least, not in this lifetime. Still, I felt as though I should.
The emotions she stirred within me were unexplainable. No stranger should evoke such longing—no matter how breathtaking she was.
“What are you yelling for? It’s late—go back to sleep,” my friend mumbled from across the room, curling tighter under one of the threadbare sheets we’d managed to scavenge.
“Yes! Yes... just dreams,” I replied hastily.
“Hmmmm
