Saying out loud sucked the air right out of my lungs. For a moment, it felt like I could not breathe properly, because the weight of this acknowledgment weighed heavily on my chest, but realising out loud did not do me much good.
"What do you mean, Eliza?"
Alexa's voice made me snap out of the storm of emotions brewing in me.
"I don't remember much of the journey there. The poison was knocking me out every few hours and at some point I just gave up trying to figure it out. But I remember waking up at one point when we were with the people that attacked us... Raven argued with them... begged them to let me live and then he offered himself in return for the cure."
"What... what do you mean he offered himself?"
"He gave up his freedom... he became their slave... their plaything just to s
