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I'd guessed it, but hearing Nyx confirm it twits something inside my chest.
"You can sense new life about to begin, while Xena senses a life when it's about to end" Nyx says.
"So, anything or anyone about to die, she feels that?"
"Yes."
| press a hand on my chest, feeling as if a heavy weight has been placed there.
Beneath the fear | felt at discovering my new powers, there was also a kind of excitement. Being able to sense
life, like Nyx said, brings happiness and joy; | can't imagine what being able to sense someone is about to die
feels like.
No one wants to know their loved one is about to die, now imagine being able to sense anything or anyone about
to die?
"Xena hated her powers." Nyx voice cuts through my thoughts. "She said it felt like a curse."
And | can imagine why she'd feel that way. Being able to sense death isn't a power I'd like to have.
| reswalking, both Nyx and | quiet, lost in our own thoughts... That's until, just ahead, the silence of the
forest is broken.
A sound slips through the trees, thin and raw, barely carried on the wind.
Someone crying.
| freeze where | stand, my breath catching in my throat. The hair on the back of my neck rises, and every instinct
screams atto listen closer.
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The sobs are faint, but they're there.
The sound pullsforward before I've even decided what to do. My feet move on instinct, crunching softly over
damp leaves as | follow the trail of muffled sobs. The closer | get, the sharper they become. Quiet gasps breaking
through the morning silence, a pain too heavy for the forest to hide.
And then | see her.
Piper sits on a fallen log, her arms wrapped around her knees, her face buried in them. Her shoulders shake as
the tears slip free, and my heart squeezes at the sight.
"Piper?" My voice is gentle, careful, like approaching a wounded bird.
She startles, head snapping up, eyes red and damp. For a second, she tries to wipe her face, to pretend she's not
crying. But it's too late. I've already seen it.
“I—I couldn't sleep." Her voice cracks, and she gives up the pretense with a shaky laugh. "And | didn't want
anyone to seelike this."
| walk over slowly and lower myself onto the log beside her. "Well... | couldn't sleep either," | admit, offering a
small smile.
Her lips twitch, and she huffs out a breath that's halfway between a laugh and a sob. "What is it with us and
sleepless nights?"
"I don't know," | laugh softly, and that gets a real laugh out of her, even if it's watery.
For a moment, we just sit there, listening to the morning birds beginning to stir in the branches above us. The
world feels suspended, hushed and private.
"Is it about yesterday?" | finally ask.
She doesn't answer right away. Her gaze drops to her lap, fingers twisting together, and | know the silence is its
own kind of answer.
"Yeah," she whispers eventually. "It's
not... it's not that | don't want the
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just... Calvin's not here. And | don't
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Her voice trembles on the last word, and she presses her hand over her stomach instinctively, protective even in
her fear.
I understand her fear. | know how
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yourself. I'd been lost when AlG
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was going to do it all alone, but good
thing | had a strong support system.
| reach for her arm, squeezing lightly. "Have you talked to him about it?"
Her eyes flick to mine before darting
away. "No. He keeps trying to eh
through to me. Leaiféel ming
atthe Dh but. She. exhales
shakily, guilt pooling in her tone. ‘|
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| don't want him to feel all this. | don't want him to carry my fear
when there is nothing he can do
about it. It'll only make him feel more helpless."
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