Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. You left me, she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again...
There was a faint ringing in her ears that turned into a roar. And beneath it, a sudden wave of numbness, a too-familiar lack of sight or sound or feeling. She didn't know why it happened, because she...