A sudden, searing heat licked up my spine, curling beneath my ribs. My knees buckled, but Micah caught me before I hit the floor. I gasped, my fingers clutching at his arms, my vision swimming. The whispers grew louder, twining through my mind like vines creeping through cracks in stone. Its pain merged with my own, blurring the lines between us until I couldn’t remember who it had belonged to before.
