Remington’s POV-
Coming back to myself had been a slow process. For the longest time, I had been floating. My body felt the most relaxed it had in as long as I could remember and my mind was suspended in pure bliss. Izmel’s shadows surged through my body, foreign yet energizing every cell as they moved through me. I could feel them binding to every fiber of my being, changing me and flooding me with new power. I was filled with conflicting sensations, but the process wasn’t necessarily unpleasant.
I couldn’t be sure how long I spent in that place while the shadows fused themselves to me, but slowly I became aware of shuffling in the room. My eyelids were heavy, so instead of fighting to open them, I just laid there and listened. Even breathing filtered through my hearing, coming from ea
