LUCKITA’S POV
I felt like I was going to lose my mind. Both Aleron and Philip had said that I was a mere human, that I might have been attacked, and that part was true. I had bruises on my face and arms to show for it. But was I really human? Why couldn’t I feel or remember anything at all that linked me to humans? What was my name? Where did I even come from?
Questions kept spiraling in my mind as I raced through the shallow grasses until I reached the entrance of the forest. The ground was wet, and the scars of bootsteps were everywhere. It must have been Aleron and his friend.
I stepped onto the bridge, and suddenly the sound of the fast-flowing water beneath it made my heart beat faster. In the haziness of my mind, I saw darkness when I looked to my far left, where the water was com
