looked into his eyes that I once thought were black holes of emptiness. But that was just what he projected to the world. He didn’t want anyone to look deeper. I knew better now. They were unexplored caverns, leading somewhere fathomless and vast. The prospect of being the first to want to know Sebastian beneath the surface, to walk in the dark with him, was terrifying, but I’d already seen glimmers of what lay beyond the blackness, and it only drove my curiosity to see more, my safety and sanity be damned.
