Damon:
"Come on now, princess. Get up from here." She had been stuck under this tree for thirty minutes looking at the bits and pieces of the other contestants that Peryton didn't take. I could feel her body shaking. Is she scared?
"Ivy," I whispered through her mind.
"I'm trying to." She said out loud.
"What are you scared of?" I envisioned my hands touching her face and could feel the warmth of her flushed cheeks under my palms.
"What makes you think I'm scared?" She whispered through her mind this time.
"You're shaking." I had only possessed a few people in my day, but she was by far the warmest.
"It… It killed them." Her voice, even in her mind, was between a whisper and a cry.
"It did, and so will you." That stopped her heart for a moment.
"Will what?" She shrieked, clutching
