Chapter 215

• A tingling sensation starts at my arm, another on my throat, and spreads to my chest as it feels like my body is pulled into a strong, cradling embrace. Weight is hauled from me. Against all my expectations, my eyes flutter open as darkness starts to recede, and a pair of amber eyes in a familiar face is only inches from mine, reflecting a blue glow that brings my sight down to where it's coming from. My brain is so cloudy that I stare numbly, with no sense of recognition for a second.
• Human hands... blue healing glow on my arm and my upper chest and the armor, it’s lying beside me, dented, curled and slashed, and yet I can't get my bearings at all. I don't know what's happening anymore.
• "Colton?" I whisper in dazed confusion, knowing this is a dream. So weak, it sounds like the softest pitter-patter of rain on the forest floor. Gazing up into the familiar face of the person I have wanted most all this time.