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Cyra
My whole body is sore and my mind is all messy, like it’s filled with slush or dark clouds. Liam and Spence are clinging to me tightly, like they have been every night since Zack and Max left. Then my heart hurts and I gasp.
Zack and Max!
I sit up suddenly, my heart racing as I look around. We’re in a room I don’t recognise. Our surroundings are made of a lightly coloured wood and everything else is in earthy colours, with elements of light blue and white, like the colours of the sky, as accents.
Then everything that happened yesterday floods back. We were attacked! We fled the apartment. And after walking through the forest for hours, a centaur clan took us in.
I shifted into a phoenix for the first time in almost two decades. I carried Liam in my claws, until I was too tire
