(Penny’s POV)
The weight of Kira's revelation hung in the air, freezing me in place.
All the mean words I had been gathering to rain down on her suddenly got stuck in my throat, fear and disbelief replacing them instead.
She couldn’t be telling the truth, right?
Surely, this had to be some twisted lie to get my attention.
And if I was being honest, it was working.
She had my attention alright.
But would someone go that far?
No, no, the real question was why would someone go that far?
Death was certainly not something one could just casually play with, right?
Which had to mean only one thing:
She was not lying.
“Dying?” I repeated, the word escaping in a soft whisper.
The gravity of the statement and what it meant weighed down on me, completely shadowing all the feelings of
