NOA I’d woken up to Terra softly kissing my face. I instinctively reached for her and pulled her down into the bed with me, snuggling into her in the process. “My mother… she’s alive… and being held in Cullom.” I told her through fresh tears. She gingerly ran her hand up and down my back in a soothing motion. I felt so surrounded by love when Terra was near, it truly did calm my inner turmoil. “Avery... that’s the man who took us... the man who tested me… the man I burned severely when I escaped… he’s been holding her all this time... doing only god knows what to her.” I choked out between deep breaths and my tears, I just couldn’t get them to stop. Terra had stopped rubbing my back and gone still. “Avery? That was the name of the man who watched, while the guards… while they…” Terra

