C38 Monsters

I had cried for hours in Damon’s arms.

All this time, all the effort, all the dreams I’d wasted searching and my mother was dead. All this time, she was dead.

No one had ever notified me. No one had called, no one had visited me at Nightcrest. My mother was dead and no one had bothered to send me the memo. My legs felt like gelatin beneath me the entire walk back through the palace tunnel