Liberation

Caitlyn, unconscious.

For a moment, I simply stared down at her.

“······.”

The hand I carefully held was cold and stiff.

Her body was covered in sand, and white frost crackled at her fingertips.

The white had spread across her bronze skin, steadily leeching away her body heat.

The girl was a complete wreck.

-If we lose this, I’ll kill you···.

Those were the words she had spat out just before losing consciousness.

I turned those rough words over in my mind...