"When I went through the information of the Universal System, I looked into the information regarding the girl you were close with. I am sorry to say.....but Elysia Moonglow is dead."
I didn't immediately reply.
The room gradually fell silent around me as I slowly lowered myself onto the couch behind me, my thoughts drifting elsewhere.
For some reason, after hearing those words spoken aloud, I found myself remembering things that should have been meaningless.
The way she smiled whenever she caught me overthinking something. The way she always seemed capable of trusting people far more easily than I ever could.
The way she would become strangely stubborn whenever she believed she was right, refusing to back down no matter how unreasonable she was being.
And perhaps most annoyingly of all, the way she always looked at me as though I was capable of far more than I actually was.
A strange heaviness gradually settled within my chest.
It wasn't because Henry's words had shocked me.
