DAEMON'S POINT OF VIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It’s hard, it’s so hard that it feels like I’m breaking, like my skin is burning, and not in that nice way that makes me all hot, my heart feels like it's squeezed in a tight grip and nails dig into it, leaving me without air. I heard about it, about the pain that you experience when you can't mark your mate, but I never really believed it. I thought that maybe it's uncomfortable, or maybe it's the blue balls kind of pain, but damn, it's worse than what I heard, and it's everywhere, in every muscle, every cell, it's like I'm made of pain. It's like watching horror movies, and you are afraid, but you don't believe that those things can really happen in real life, not to you, but it turns out that it can, and it's

