Kiara's POV:
“Mama! Help me! Mama please!”
“Let her go! Please I beg you, let her go! Take me instead!”
I felt like I wasn't in my body, drenched in darkness, but the voice I heard was mine. I can't recall a time when I have ever sounded like that, so raw and pained.
A man's cruel laugh punched through the air. The darkness split in half. My hands were held out in front of me, streaked with dirt and blood. A pair of boots appeared in my line of sight. I tracked my eyes higher and higher till I saw the face of the man.
“Take you instead?” He cackled, his eyes a deep and violent red.
A child screamed. “Put me down! Mama! Mama I'm scared!”
The man held up a child by the scruff of her neck. Her small legs kicked in all directions as she tried to free herself. In his other hand he held a
