I closed my eyes and let out a soft gasp. My fingers were numb and cold, my arm aching where the needle pierced the vein. Something clattered onto the pavement. The needle. It must have slipped out of my hand. 

Nothingness swirled around me, bringing the first sense of peace that I'd felt since...ever. But that was okay. It meant that there was no one to miss me, and no one I would miss. Well, perhaps there would be a few, but they could always find others to extract their cruel, sadistic pleasure from. 

My last breath was rough and shallow, the last beat of my heart pitifully fail. I sank to the alley floor, eyes closing, welcoming the blessed nothingness of the end. 

Only...death was supposed to be dark, wasn't it? And since when did 'nothingness' have so many gods?

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Apprehension stalked me during the two days that followed, each minute an agonizing hour. Whether training with Sari or studying alone in Haven's library, the feeling never left me, a weight on my shoulders and a tautness in my chest. Some things I anticipated, like Korra's return, but she had yet to reach Sangra City. Even more pressing, the center of my trepidation, was the upcoming banquet with the Ellenwinters and conversation with Luke. There was nothing I could do about the first, but the second…?


Chapter 914 - Eavesdropping