24. Tamia's POV "I screamed. That was the first reaction I had when I saw Alana lifeless. I screamed willing her soul back. I screamed begging the moon goddess to take me and exchange my life for hers. I screamed begging any deity that could hear me to save her and I would sacrifice myself to it. But none listened. She was gone," I continued. "I couldn't believe that my best friend was dead. She was dead. I still held to her body trying to exchange her fate wit mine. It all seemed...," I struggled to find the word and I was grateful to Killian because he was patient enough to wait. "...surreal. It was like all a bad dream. I wondered why a sweet girl like Alana would die leaving me the poor one with nothing alive. The first to arrive at the scene were the guards who were on patr