My lips parted on an answer but the air before me shimmered, and I saw myself in a vision of the future. I was standing with Roxy beneath a huge Christmas tree, my lips pressing to hers in one final, desperate kiss before my time ran out one year from now. Her arms curled around my neck, drawing me closer as I held her so tightly that I was certain not even the stars could tear us apart. But as the clock struck midday, my muscles locked, the magic within me stilling. And even as I fought with all I had to stay there with her, my fate was already sealed, and it tore me away all the same. Roxy
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