~ Seraphina's POV ~
Darkness.
It wasn’t just the absence of light. It was a presence… thick, suffocating, alive. It coiled around me like a serpent, wrapping itself around my throat, pressing against my skin like a cold, damp shroud. The kind of darkness that didn’t just blind you… it made you forget what light even was.
I looked around, my heart pounding in my chest, but there was nothing. No shapes, no outlines. Just endless, unyielding black.
Where the hell am I?
Panic pricked at the edges of my mind, sharp and relentless. I tried to move, to run, to scream, but the void clung to me, thick as tar, suffocating every attempt. My voice wouldn’t come. My limbs felt weightless, as though I wasn’t even standing on solid ground.
I was supposed to be with Alaric…
The thought of his name
