Piper

I swear I felt my heart pulling away from my body and leaving with Henry. That’s what it felt like anyway, leaving an emptiness inside me at the loss.

I feel my friend wrap her arm around me. “How many hours until you see him again?” Cyra asks.

“Too many,” I say, still feeling Henry in my mind as he drives off. I know the mind link will eventually be too far for even that connection, but it helps knowing that we’re still connected a little for now.

I make it through sparring ...