"I am not certain I would want to start over," Raven said. She couldn't imagine life without Karla or Jono or Anakin or the others. And she certainly didn't want to think they'd give up on her, but....

"I hurt them all so badly," she said. She kept coming back to that, much as she wanted to forget all she'd done. Bits and pieces of the nightmares flashed through her mind, a confused jumble of images, but some things stood out. "I forced Jono to say he loved me when he does not," she said. "I used you to hurt him."

She was dead; she didn't need to breath. So why did it feel like she was about to hyperventilate?

[Night! <3 ]