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"Jane?" Liet whispered, trying to recapture my attention. The hold his eyes had on me broke as soon as he had spoken. I blinked, and everything suddenly seemed out of focus. My limbs felt leaden, dragging towards the floor, as my vision blurred even further. The ground rushed up at me, slowly, and I wondered meekly if this was another dream. I felt tired enough to sleep for ages...

The blurred outline of the hardwood flooring finally met me. Pain shot through my head as it connected with a dull thud that echoed through my bones. I could faintly make out the silhouette of... Who was it again? Why did I care? I needed to close my eyes for just a moment, to get rid of the pain..

"Jane!" The silhouette cried, loud enough to make me squeeze my eyes shut, as if that would shut out the sound. Sound was pain, pain that was like shoving a steel pike made of fire straight into my temple. A hundred times over.

Ah, the pain. I had never before known anything like it. So dark, it burned, hotter and hotter, spreading from my temple to my face and down my shoulders. It blistered away every thought in my mind, consumed my will, until I was helpless to stop what was within me as it burned.

"Open your eyes, come on, now," It breathed, now sounding right next to my ear. "I know it hurts. But you have to open your eyes." Something brushed my hair back from my face, so gently I barely noticed it. "Stay awake."

The instinct to unclench my eyes and see what spoke to me overwhelmed that dark fire. I saw the outline, faint at first but growing ever stronger, of a boy awash in blue light. He seemed to glow with it, the color clash