-Ezra:
I tried to blink it away. Tried to make sense of it. Tried to find the ground beneath me.
But the darkness came first. Slowly, then all at once. It swirled. It consumed. And I fell into it, drifting away from everything I had known, everything I had trusted, everything I had counted on.
And after that… I don't know what happened.
All I knew was that I was alone.
I don't know what I felt. Everything turned dark. Everything spun around me in dizzying, unrelenting circles, and I felt… betrayed. I had never felt like this before. I had trusted him—trusted Pops, trusted Dad, trusted Julian to see reason, to see me. And yet, here I was, thrown into a cell like I was nothing more than one of the criminals I'd glimpsed behind the bars.
