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Cold… so very cold.
Pressure expanded within my chest. Iron seasoned my tongue. Hair clung to my cheeks. The ends tickled my lips as I trembled, the chill of winter sucking all warmth from my body.
“Ada.”
I blinked but saw nothing but an eagle circling the sky. And snowflakes, so many snowflakes. Beside me, before me, around me, next to the man—
I groaned, fighting how my eyes wanted to flutter shut on the man kneeling beside me. Wind swept through his long white hair, framing eyes entirely black. He had neither white nor brown in them, yet I sensed his stare.
“Come into my light, give me your breath.” Gentle fingers stroked along my jawline as he crouched over me, his thumb stroking blood-painted lips. “I cannot let him extend it a second time.”
“Eilam.” His name was a dying whisper on my lips.
Lips he suddenly suckled between his in a stiff kiss. It lasted only the fraction of a breath before he pulled back, his mouth and chin smeared with blood. My blood.
He dragged his tongue over it, licking it, tasting it, before he shook his head. “No, I do not understand. Now, come to me. Let me ease your pain. Life is precious to me, but I will not allow him to steal you a second time.”
“Come into my light,”his voice beckoned from where darkness faded into pure brightness.“Return to me what I let you borrow.”
Lightness settled upon my body as my head lolled to the side. One step of my mind, and light encapsulated me.
Pain. Sorrow. Grief.
It all vanished.
The earth shook with rage.
“How extraordinary,”Eilam’s voice wafted around me.“There is more life in you than in any before. More than I need to sate this hunger existence has cursed me with.”
The light faded away, leaving me with no pain, no warmth. Coldness gnawed on me from the inside, along with an overwhelming need to find warmth in Enosh’s arms.
I tried to call for him.
Lips refused to open.
My mind called to him instead, saying only one thing.
Master.
