Seraphina's POV
My eyes flew open, and for a moment, all I could hear was the frantic pounding of my heart in my chest.
I looked around for a while, wondering if I had somehow woken up in another strange world, but to my surprise, I was back in my room. My room.
The garden, the black-and-white world, my mother—it was all gone. It had been a dream. Just a dream, but the tightness in my chest, the lingering confusion, made it hard to believe. It had felt so real.
I sat up slowly, running a hand through my hair as I tried to arrange my thoughts. The images from the dream were vivid, refusing to fade like dreams usually did.
My family's house in Aldoria, the muted black-and-white world, my mother's younger face… and then Solara.
Solara.