Into the Light

~Dorian~

Darkness.

Not the peaceful kind. The heavy, endless kind that presses against my chest and makes breathing feel optional.

“Dorian, honey.”

Katerina’s voice.

I turn sharply, my pulse spiking. “Katerina?” My voice echoes, swallowed whole by the void.

That’s impossible.

Katerina is dead.

The thought lands with a sickening clarity. I know this. I remember this. So why is her voice threading t