The cracking skin that was slowly breaking the boy, the roots that hung him up in the air as a dark arrow went right into the boy's heart. Adreanna felt like the time stopped when that happened.
Axel suddenly stared at her, and it was as if only they were the only ones there. His stares were judging, begging, withering. Adreanna choked on her own breath, and she could not breathe under her brother's overwhelming gaze.
"Adreanna, you promised..." Axel croaked, and suddenly, his mismatched eyes poured black tears, and a blinding red light burst from his chest and-
Adreanna jerked up from the bed she was on with a shaggy breath. She quickly stepped down from the bed with the overwhelming leftover feeling from a nightmare. She only managed to stand for a moment before realizing that she had lost her balance.
