PERSEFONE POV
*Stay with me - Sam Smith*
When I saw Thane on the ground, covered in blood, something inside me tore clean open.
I ran before I could think, before fear could catch up, before logic could remind me there were monsters everywhere, before any of the training my fathers had drilled into me since I was barely old enough to stand could tell me that sprinting into the middle of a battlefield was the stupidest thing I could possibly do.
I didn’t care.
I didn’t care about the hybrids.
I didn’t care about the smoke.
I didn’t care that the black mist crawled around my ankles like it was trying to drag me under.
I only saw him.
The sound of his massive body hitting the ground went through me like a blade. Hitting me straight into my heart.
The hybrids parted like the red sea,
