I slipped my fingers into the band of the Seeker’s mask and ripped it off, my entire world turning on its axis as the eerie purple glow illuminated a familiar face. Kohl’s lips were split into a smile I’d never seen before, the corner of their mouth hooked into a manic grin as they watched me struggle against them. I wanted to scream, to tell them who I was, but I didn’t have the air in my lungs to do it. Tears slipped out of my eyes as the world shrank to their overblown pupils, the honey brown that I’d loved in their stare all but shrouded in a mass of black.
