The Eleventh Awakening

KIERA'S POV

There is a certain look people give you when you are about to die. I saw it in the eyes of the boy who did this to me. Not pity. Not remorse. Just calm acceptance, like I was already a ghost.

Despite the deprivation of oxygen—my body's natural reaction to being told to stop its innate function—I still tried to convince my brain that I loved myself enough to fight. But my body just... t