Dawn’s POV

I woke up the next morning just as Candice had exited the bathroom. “Look who’s back from the land of the dead,” she greeted me, and I felt my head hit the pillow again as soon as I heard her voice. There was a split moment, maybe five seconds or so, where I would wake up and have my mind completely blank.

In those few seconds, the world was peaceful. Right up until the sixth second when everything from the previous few days came crashing back to ...