12-15-2024, 04:58 PM
Such was her stupor, Asha did not notice when her sentient senses instead became her reality. The fear and panic gripped as tightly as the sudden darkness and cold. The leather coat dragged her down quickly, and she didn’t fight it. Then, suddenly, there was absence and silence; a weight that blanketed everything but the speed of her frightened heart, and the short shallow gasps of her struggling breath. She curled into it. But the moment of respite didn’t last. Some small part of her realised it was Elias; that he had dropped the shield of his power now. But the tendrils of his panic were no comfort. It didn’t matter. By now the shock stole the consciousness right from underneath her.