As if it were not my home. As if it were not me.
"CLARA!"
His voice reaches me loudly.
Clara, Clara, Clara.
I blink, I try to focus.
"Are you okay?"
I can't answer, not right away.
My throat hurts, my breathing is not stable. My hands are still shaking, and Alexander returns to the man.
It holds him, immobilizes him.
"Don't move!"
The intruder struggles, but he no longer has control.
He no longer has an advantage, he no longer has anything.
Only chaos, only defeat. And then... Everything breaks inside me.
Fear, tension, control. Everything.
I start to cry, unable to stop it. Unable to hold it back.
My body shrinks, my hands cover my face. And the sound comes out broken, uncontrollable.
Alexander quits, not completely, but long enough.
He approaches me, bends down.
"Clara.
