Aurora’s P.O.V

I watch as the pendant’s light catches my eyes, the glow refracting off its surface, filling the dimly lit space with a strange, otherworldly shimmer. For the first time in what feels like an eternity, the pain that has been clawing at my insides like a relentless beast begins to ebb away.

The sharp, pounding ache dulls, the suffocating fog in my mind lifts, and suddenly—I can feel them. Caleb. Caroline. Their presence is no longer distant, no longer muddled ...