Flora’s P.O.V

Darkness. It was all around me; all consuming and everlasting.

As a child, I had always been scared of the dark. Maybe it was the absence of the moon that made me feel like the Goddess has withdrawn her blessing from me; or maybe it was the ghostly stories that Riley used to scare me with when I was a child. But darkness was always something that frightened me…suffocated me.

But this darkness didn’t suffocate me. This darkness was…caring; filled with love.

Clay…

He was nearby, I could feel it. There was something about Clay…a kind of warmth to his aura…something that called to me. It was that...