(Planet Tithia, First Elder's private training arena, Forty Five Days Later)
One and a half months passed in the blink of an eye for Leo and Veyr, as the duo struggled with paranoia and panic on the daily, until recently when they finally began to overcome it convincingly.
*Clink*
*Clink*
The cuffs still weighed on their wrists every morning, and the potion still burned in their throats every afternoon, yet what once dragged them to the brink of madness now felt like a crucible they could walk through without stumbling, as the hallucinations that used to tear their minds apart no longer seemed to hold any power over them.
"Cuz, it's almost funny," Veyr said, his lips twitching into a grin as he spun aside from a real dagger that whistled toward him, his body moving without hesitation.
"This thing used to make me scream at shadows, now it's like I can feel which ones are smoke and which ones can actually split my ribs."
He boasted, as Leo chuckled in response.
