Chapter 42

I will find you, Brianna! Celestria’s voice sounded in my head just as the Goddess’s had so many times before. Her pale face swam towards me out of the darkness of unconsciousness, and even though I tried to flinch away from her, I realised that I couldn’t move. Black tendrils whipped all around us, snaking around my face and with a sick sensation in my stomach, I realised that it was her hair.

“No! Get away from me!” I screeched even as those same tendrils began to wrap around my limbs.

Pain lanced through my ribcage, and I suddenly burst awake, the sensation drawing me from the dream as if I was being pulled from the bottom of the deepest ocean.

“Whoa! Steady on!”

Hands gripped my arms and pinned me down. Even in my weakened state, I struggled against them, kicking and screaming.

“No! Get off me!” I screamed from deep down in my gut, and the hands were suddenly gone from my arms, this time landing on my shoulders.