Awakening
Awakening
“Goddess, help me, I thought desperately.
Cal. Oh, Cal. Tears began to rain down my cheeks, scalding and salty. I wrapped my arms around myself and rocked back and forth, keening quietly, trying to smother the sound. My palm throbbed where I’d crushed the candle flame, and as I sat there, the pain seemed to spread until my whole body was one pulsing, raw wound.
After a while Dagda mewed and tapped me tentatively with one paw. I looked at him numbly.
At some point my brain began to work again. Ho...w had that happened? How had Cal gotten into my vision? Was it his dark magick? Or had I summoned him somehow—had my own subconscious betrayed me?
He’d said he still loved me. He’d said he’d love me forever. Wasn’t that truth I’d heard in his voice?
I gasped and squeezed my head between my hands. “Stop it. Stop it!” I muttered.
I sat there for another few minutes. Then I forced myself to climb into bed. Dagda sprang up and curled himself into a ball on my stomach. I lay there, staring blindly at the ceiling as tears ran down the sides of my face to soak my pillow.MoreLess
Cal. Oh, Cal. Tears began to rain down my cheeks, scalding and salty. I wrapped my arms around myself and rocked back and forth, keening quietly, trying to smother the sound. My palm throbbed where I’d crushed the candle flame, and as I sat there, the pain seemed to spread until my whole body was one pulsing, raw wound.
After a while Dagda mewed and tapped me tentatively with one paw. I looked at him numbly.
At some point my brain began to work again. Ho...w had that happened? How had Cal gotten into my vision? Was it his dark magick? Or had I summoned him somehow—had my own subconscious betrayed me?
He’d said he still loved me. He’d said he’d love me forever. Wasn’t that truth I’d heard in his voice?
I gasped and squeezed my head between my hands. “Stop it. Stop it!” I muttered.
I sat there for another few minutes. Then I forced myself to climb into bed. Dagda sprang up and curled himself into a ball on my stomach. I lay there, staring blindly at the ceiling as tears ran down the sides of my face to soak my pillow.MoreLess
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