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Kieran
SHE FELL. IF I HADN’Tbeen there to catch her, she would hit the ground as her eyes closed. She went limp as soon as I had her in between my arms.
She was warm. Alive still... Her breathing was low and fragile. Her purple hair was wet with sweat, and before her eyes fluttered shut, I saw the pain in her and wished she would never feel it again.
“What happened?” Brigid asked.
The monster whom Jasmine had transformed stood up. But he was no longer a monster.
“She changed all of them back,” he said, his voice croaked as though this was the first time he had spoken for a long while. “All the monsters...”
“What?” I looked up to stare at him. “How?”
“She...” The man hesitated. “I don’t know. We were in the place with the well... But it was a memory... I... I was turning, and she stopped it. Then, she said the queen had left a trail. She... She followed it, I think. She told all of them... She told them that they were not monsters. And they believed her.”
“She took their pain away,” Cari moved. Within seconds she was on her knees beside me, touching Jasmine’s beautiful face, still twisted with the pain. “She couldn’t take it.”
I did not like that Cari was touching her. Jasmine’s brows were tight, as though she did not like it either. As I held her tightly, her body started to shake.
“Is she going to die?” I asked.
My voice was cold and distant. The distance was the only thing that could make me even consider the possibility. I would have to get out of my body to experience it if it were to become a reality, but I did not have that talent.
My father was in danger. My sister was in danger. And now, Jasmine was in danger.
Perhaps they were all dead or dying.
I knew I could not take it. Still, I looked up to see Cari’s expression.
I had to know.
“I don’t know,” she replied, putting her hand on Jasmine’s forehead. “But the monster in her is gone too.”
She closed her eyes without pulling her hand off Jasmine’s head. It took her only a second. A smile appeared on her lips.
It angered me. Jasmine wasn’t awake yet.
It wasn’t time for a smile.
“They are gone,” she said. “The monsters... I can’t feel them anymore.”
“Did they die?” Dearen asked.
“No,” Cari replied. “I think they are no longer monsters... There is a vague connection, but I can’t use it to access their minds.”
She gave Jasmine an incredulous look. “She did it.”
“Jasmine?” I shook her gently. She had stopped moving again. “Wake up.”
She didn’t move. Her eyelids fluttered, but she did not look at me.
Dearen was behind me. He put his hand on my shoulder and squeezed it.
I hated him for it. I did not need to be consoled.
Jasmine would be fine.
“We should leave,” Brigid said. “The queen will be coming here. We broke all the portals, but she can still find a way to get here.”
