Chapter 17
Silence was good.
Silence was what she'd needed for months. Years, really. If everything would just stop moving and shifting around her, she would sleep for years now. Maybe then she'd wake up and everything would be normal again.
Still.
Be still!
She couldn't quite find her way to her voice, and the motion never stopped. Maybe Leo could help her, at least keep her warm so the changes and adjustments wouldn't be so awful. She couldn't remember ever being so cold.
Leo had to be close by, she could almost feel him. Not quite smell or hear, but the same echo of her soul and his that she'd felt for half her life.
Almost.
But that wasn't good enough.
She tried to get close to him, to find that connection. The space inside where she fit.
Something wasn't right. Like one lone
