Chapter 15

"It was her memories."

Huh?

"That can't be possible."

"Possible? You occasionally glow like the fucking sun and that is something you still can't believe? Come on."

That was absolutely terrifying.

"But— I've never experienced this before! How do you know that's a memory and not just... anxiety?"

He stared at me like I was a clueless child.

"A frozen forest, a betrayal and being split in two are pretty obvious hints. I could pretend it was just your anxiety but the split in two parts and the frozen forest aren't mentioned in the books Pandora lent you. It's just something in the original stories from many centuries ago."

Oh, no. I think I'm gonna throw up.

I breathed in deeply, trying to control my heartbeat, and covered my face with my hands. It was too much for me to swallow.

"Viktor," I asked in a shaking tone, "where did you hear about the split-in-two thing?"

Viktor cleared his throat. "I... Arlo was obsessed with this story. He had the original edition and read it in old English.