Celia's Pov

I was going crazy.

There was no gentler word for it. I stumbled around my chamber like someone who had lost her mind - pacing from wall to wall, then back again, my hands in my hair, my breath unsteady, my skin hot with shame and confusion. I couldn't stay still. My body kept moving even when my legs trembled.

"What is wrong with me?" I whispered to the empty room.

"What am I becoming?"

This wasn't me.

This wasn't the Celia Malric used to know, the Celia everyone loved - calm, kind, composed.

How did I turn into this monster?

Into someone so desperate for attention... so...