Betty POV
"Wake up, you useless human."
The voice isn't Tola. It isn't loud, but it slices right through the thick, suffocating blackness pressing down on my chest.
"Tola?" I scream, but the word catches in my throat. No sound comes out. No echo. Just nothing.
A sharp, childlike giggle rattles through the dark. It sounds entirely wrong. Dangerous.
"Stop laughing," I snap, my mind racing as I claw at the empty space around me. "Show yourself or I swear to God I will find a way to make you regret it."
"You cannot even see your own hands, Betty. How do you expect to threaten me?"
"Who is that?" I demand, my heart hammering against my ribs. "Are you my subconscious playing tricks on me because Tola left?"
"She did not leave you because you are weak," the voice purrs, shifting closer un
