“Amara, it’s okay to be sad about your situation. You’ve been handed a tough deck of cards, but out of the many people I’ve met over the years, you are the one who could handle this.”
“Look at me,” I disagreed. My breathing started to get fast again, and I felt like I could scream. “I’m a literal monster.”
“Amara, breath,” he said as he rubbed my shoulders. “I can help you. Your brother can help too. We are going to make sure you do not hurt anyone else. I promise you will learn how to control this part of you.”
“You were able to control when your face looked like this,” I suddenly remembered the two times I’d seen his face change in front of me. “How did you get it to change back to normal?”
“That was a little different. You will need to eat for it to go away,” Emanuele explained. “In
