Shadows Catching Up

POV: Elara.

I didn’t even realize I had finally succumbed to sleep in the passenger seat until the nightmare came. Usually, sleep was a grueling, nightly battle. I would stare at the ceiling for hours, fighting the demons in my head until sheer, crushing exhaustion dragged me under against my will. But the hypnotic hum of the car engine and the rhythmic flashing of the highway lights must have qu