Breathing heavily, shock weighed Nova down as she stared past the guns pointed at her and to someone she believed had died.
"B-Bruce?! Nova choked, her eyes prickling with unshed tears.
Bruce was alive. Bruce was alive! Bruce… The relief she felt was fleeting as seeing Chad's bodyguard also meant one thing. She was no longer in the World of Beasts, no longer with her Serakai. They were literally worlds apart.
"Yoa…" Nova whispered, her legs faltering. Her head dipped beneath the surface of the water. She felt utterly hopeless. Her heart squeezed so tightly she couldn't breathe, even if she wasn't in water.
"-ova!"
Nova barely registered the muffled sounds outside of the lake. What did it matter? Yoa, Atia and Aiyana... They were all gone. The Vampiras… the impossibility of survival… Tears blurred her vision as she began to sink further into the water, the heaviness of her limbs becoming all too real.
