Damian I felt something hot, piercing through me as darkness consumed me whole. I stirred, then felt it being removed from me; my body started to heat up almost immediately. ‘Aaron, what's the issue? Why's everywhere dark?’ I felt Aaron trying to reel himself; it seemed he was a little weakened, which was not like him. ‘That’s because we passed out.’ ‘Passed out?’ ‘Yes… you might want to remember what happened before the darkness,’ Aaron encouraged, and I was taken back in my memories as it came flooding into my heart. I stirred at the thought of Aurora taking the punch for me, going limp on my body, and then the screeching of tires before the numbness. “Son, you are safe here. Can you please open your eyes?” Dad's voice surged, calm and quiet. ‘You might want to open your eyes to

