Evaline:
I didn't even realize when an entire month slipped past me.
One whole month.
A month since I holidays started.
A month since Draven's… incident.
And even now, the pain hadn't dulled. It didn't fade. It had just gone quiet.
I wasn't the shattered mess I had been four weeks ago - crying on and off, unable to sleep, barely eating, feeling like my soul was bruising from the inside out. No, I had somehow climbed out of that suffocating darkness, but the ache remained. A deep, quiet wound that reopened at the slightest touch.
But life had changed drastically in these few weeks.
I got to spend real time with my son... hours and hours with Lioren that filled places inside me I didn't realize existed. I was now officially a member of the Soul Death Investigation Team, doing actual work beside my mates instead of being left behind. And my training lessons - stars, those lessons - had made me improve so much.
