Stolen Defiance

~SIENNA POV~

A sudden, harsh pain in my chest drags me up from the crushing darkness.

I gasp, my lungs seizing as they try to remember how to take in air. I open my eyes and am hit by a bright light that hurts. I have to squint and turn away from the strong light of the chandelier above me.

It's blinding. It's white. It's alive.

After what felt like a lifetime spent in the gloomy emptiness of unco