Chapter 26
“A man is not completely born until he is dead.”
I was dead, but now I am born again. I don’t think my experience is exactly what Benjamin Franklin meant when he wrote the words, but I was born again. Not in the spiritual, found God sort of way, but I felt different. A strange sort of excitement for life, and I knew I’d never be the same again.
I was going to fight.
I didn’t know how, didn’t even know if it was possible, but somehow I was going to find a way not to be vulnerable anymore. The Light inside me seemed to leap at my new determination as if it, too, was ready to fight.
“Llona?”
Christian came into focus. Christian. Christian knows. He knows about me.
“How?” I asked him.
“She’s alive,” someone called.
Within seconds, Christian was pushed away, and I was swarme
