"I loved you," I confessed, the words bursting from my lips before my mind could even register the consequence.
His eyes widened in shock, the dark power around him momentarily flickering. "Is it really love—"
"I... I don't know! Love is always chaotic!" I shouted over him, stepping back toward the edge of the collapsing illusion. "You lose control of everything! Sometimes, that's what love feels like... and that can be scary. Yet, loving something completely is the antidote to the chaos. It's the steady rhythm—the music—that helps you dance through it all until peace returns."
"You can't escape! You can't stop me!" the deep-seated Chaos within him bellowed, fighting against the binding circle.
"I know that—but she can!" I yelled, throwing my gaze upward. The ground beneath me shook with a massive tremor.
