It's her voice, soft but unyielding, an undeniable truth even as she throws back her head and screams, and the snakes respond to her call, the stranger's eyes going wide when she turns to him, brimming with terrible anger--
But there's a voice, calling her name, and before it all goes black, he murmurs
"And now you have more to lose, don't you, my queen?"
She jerks awake with a gasp then, eyes wide and tear-filled, and for a few seconds, she can't even speak, can't recognize the face in front of her as she tries to piece together the immediate reality. ]
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... in a world without my friends.
It's her voice, soft but unyielding, an undeniable truth even as she throws back her head and screams, and the snakes respond to her call, the stranger's eyes going wide when she turns to him, brimming with terrible anger--
But there's a voice, calling her name, and before it all goes black, he murmurs
"And now you have more to lose, don't you, my queen?"
She jerks awake with a gasp then, eyes wide and tear-filled, and for a few seconds, she can't even speak, can't recognize the face in front of her as she tries to piece together the immediate reality. ]