I wasn't saving them from purgatory, that much I could sense, but somehow it was working, somehow just a millisecond of brief contact was helping. And I felt calmer than I had in a very long time. As the light spread over my body, I could feel the pain dissipating and weakening, my muscles slowing releasing the tension that had cramped my body, the pounding in my temples easing. I laughed and I knew it was actually me that was laughing, not just the Megan who had been treading the cold waters of the underworld. Harper and Garrick shot each other bemused looks, no doubt wondering how I could be sobbing one minute and giggling the next, but I couldn't help it. My mouth curled up into a grin and the sound peeled out around the Mill, reaching out into the darkest of corners. They laughed then
