Jake's POV
The cosmic hunger was eating me alive from the inside, and that's when she appeared.
I was drowning in darkness - every evil thought from every villain who'd ever lived was pouring through me like acid. The Hunger I'd taken from our network wasn't just Zander's parasite anymore. It was the united shadow of every story ever told, and it wanted to turn me into something monstrous.
Let us out, a thousand whispers whispered in my mind. Let us damage your precious network. Let us make everyone as dark as we are.
"No," I gasped, holding Kira and Zander's hands tighter. "I won't let you hurt them."
But I was losing the fight. The darkness was too strong, too hungry, too eager to spread.
That's when reality around us changed, and suddenly we were somewhere else entirely.
