She was still alive.
She was breathing, she was fine and she didn't even feel any pain, just a skin-deep discomfort that pinched slightly, leaving the bare skin of her arms a little red.
She had made it.
Opening her eyes again, Arabella looked around at first confused and disoriented because the landscape around her was the same as the one she had just left behind and for a few moments she wondered if something had gone wrong.
At a second glance, however, she could see the differences, subtle as they were, and realized that she was indeed beyond the barrier, out of the Lycan realm.
A wave of awareness hit her with the force of a hurricane and Arabella found herself battling a flood of conflicting emotions and sensations that took her breath away for a moment or two.
Pain, fear, relie
