The loss of Darius was suffocating me, the memory of him laying so still on the ground tearing a rift through my chest. He was my best friend, and I loved him more deeply than he had ever really known. We were brothers, raised together and meant to live life side by side. Even when he’d told me about the deal he’d made with the stars for a year of life, I’d been determined to believe there was a way for him to avoid death. But it had come for him even sooner than he’d planned, and now I was left without him, and it was like I’d had a piece of my lifeforce stolen away forever. They’d given him
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