The Hunter Awakens

THE AWAKENING

~Rafael POV~

(AFTER THE STABBING)

Beep. Beep. Beep.

The sound is a rhythmic insult. A machine telling me I'm still tethered to this world when I should be out burning it to the ground.

I try to shift, and the world explodes into white-hot agony. The shard. I can still feel it. Not the glass itself, but the memory of her hand driving it into my side.

The resistance of my own skin. The