Eve
I couldn't shift.
The realization dropped like a bomb, leaving my ears ringing, and my vision darkening at the edges. Sweats dripped hot down from my temples, the heat closing in around me until it felt like I was boiling alive.
I glanced at the little bed that Elliot slept on. He was sleep peacefully, his little snoring filling me instinctively with more dread. He was defenseless and I was... useless. I was alone in this and I could shift to protect him from harm.
I looked down at my hands that refused to shift to claws that could save us if things went even more side ways that they already were.
The lights of the training room were bright but the future I saw before us had ever been more dark. I bit back back the tears, and the sob clawing it's way up my throat. If I broke down now, I would never recover.
Hades' absence was already a weight on my chest; breathing had never been so hard without him. But this...
This was worse.
