27. Goodbye's

Everest

Every muscle in my body ached. Using the gifts had proved to be exhausting, but I was grateful that I could help people. Finn had woken me up to shower and ‘talk’. I knew he just wanted to complete the rejection and get it over with since we’d been interrupted last night. I’d told him that I loved him, and he’d still wanted to end this anyways. I knew now that no matter what happened he was never going to change. At least I’d had the chance to tell him once.

I thought about the way the Aswang had acted. It had stared directly at me. It wasn’t there for Finn; it had wanted me. Even with him attacking it, it had charged for me. I felt its hunger for me. I knew now that this was all tired together. The aswangs appearance, the attacks, my abilities…it was all tied to me. I scrubbed my skin until it was reddened trying to clean Lupins blood off. I wanted to check on her before I went home. I climbed out of the shower, wincing at my achy muscles and pulled on a scrub shirt and a p