PAST MEETS PRESENT.
ELENA
Life came back to me. It was light, beyond my eyelids, but I kept my eyes closed.
Something was wrong. I was missing Blake’s voice in my head. The last thing I remembered was the Beam. I had been flying on Blake’s back.
I couldn’t remember anything else, or the reason I was lying on a bed. We’d just told my mom what she had to do. She needed to kill Goran; otherwise she would die. My eyes fluttered open at once.
I found myself looking at a fan spinning really fast. I knew that fan all too well. I’d spent so much time waking up staring at it. What was I doing in Dragonia’s infirmary?
“Good, you’re awake.” I heard my father’s voice and I found him on a chair next to my bed, reading the newspaper. He set the newspaper on the nightstand and smiled at me.
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