Aria's POV
The healer came and went. She said something about memory fever and locked memories trying to break free, but honestly I was too out of it to really understand.
All I knew was that everything hurt and I couldn't stop seeing my mother die over and over again.
Leah stayed with me the whole time, putting cold towels on my forehead and making me drink water even when I didn't want to.
At some point I fell asleep again and the memories came back worse than before.
I saw everything. My whole childhood that I'd forgotten. My mother teaching me things, my father making me laugh, the little yellow house we lived in.
And then I saw them die.
This time I didn't just see it from the closet. This time I was experiencing it like I was five years old again, feeling all that terror and confusion and pain.
I saw Miriam standing there watching. I saw her make a deal to take me instead of letting them kill me.
