Aurelia's POV
My breath gets stuck in my throat and The burning pain in my chest feels far away now nothing compared to the new fear gripping me.
I’m lying on the cold floor of the hospital with every part of my body hurting but it’s not the poison causing the fear. It’s my reflection.
In the shiny glass of an old mirror on the wall I see it. Something has changed. My arms and legs are getting longer and my skin is stretching tight. My bones feel like they’re breaking and changing shape. I gasp, the sound not fully human anymore.
“No.” I whisper with my voice cracked and weak and so soft I can barely hear it. “No, this isn’t real.”
But it is. It really is. I’ve changed before, sure—messy and strange shifts that happened when I got really emotional. But this is something else. This fe
