My hands grasped at the air like a blind person, trying to get hold of something. There were voices all around me. But they made no sense in my mind. I must have been crying or screaming for I felt hands holding me down.
"Where are the twins!?" someone cried. "Bring them here now!"
"Oh, Meru gods have mercy! What in the Seventh Hell did you all think, going into a trap like that?"
"Out of the way! Out of the way! The boys are here!"
But the last thing I heard was my own voice calling out to Amarisa.
Then a long stretching nothingness prevailed. No measures of time and space existed after that. Everything was silent and dark. But the calmness didn't last long. My body felt like it was plunged into the fire then frozen into ice. The colors and sounds returned, but they were of horrible
