Between Two Lives

Sabine's POV

The field is still there when I open my eyes again.

Silver grass ripples under a wind that doesn't feel like air but like memory. The sky glows softly, not with a sun or a moon but with something gentler—

I'm not back by the lake.

I'm still here.

And for reasons I can't explain, relief fills me before fear ever has the chance to.

"Good," Caius's voice says behind me. "Yo