Dark and Heavy

Lysandra’s POV

The exact moment I felt it, the blood in my veins turned to ice.

It was not physical pain. No blade had pierced my skin. No hex had struck my chest. Yet something inside me had been ripped away so abruptly that for one sickening second, my lungs forgot how to pull in air. My hand flew up to my sternum on pure instinct. My fingers dug hard into the fabric of my clothes, pressing d