People take loss in hundreds of different ways. There were too many variables to count. The loss of a friend can be meaningless to one person but crushing to another. It all depended on their relationship, the amount of loss a person had already gone through, their mental state at the time, and even more. Then, there was another kind of loss. The kind where you felt everything and nothing all at once. Where your grief had overtaken you, but you cannot manage to cry. Instead, you are numb. Unable to feel a thing but wanting to feel it all.
That was how it felt in the wake of the battle we lost in the canyon surrounding Petrich.
"We should have retreated when we had the chance!" Marquess Orville snarled, his venomous gaze trained on where I sat beside Viorica and Captain Turei. "We l
