Kyva found herself back in the woods in the mortal realm, running away from the warden and his men.
She was surrounded, and she witnessed how she had taken the leap of fate by jumping into the water. But instead of drowning till her life force drained from her system, she found she could somehow breathe beneath the surface. Yet, she was too exhausted and in pain to move.
That barely registered before the scene transitioned into something else.
She was back in Grayfall village as the slave traders raided it, forced to watch her mother die before her eyes. From there, the nightmare carried her through the terrible years that followed,the cruel places she had been taken to, and the hardships she had endured.
Yet she always survived
Kyva had lived with abuse for so long that she no longer reacted to it the way most people would. After eleven years, she knew what it felt like, but she never gave it a chance to define her.
