Phoenix Maplewood It was inevitable.

You left me, I needed you, you weren't there. Desna's angry words passed over Sesi's skin like ice water. The pressure inside her skull was becoming unbearable - she struggled to piece together a single coherent thought, much less present it in words. Gone. Gone in peace. It felt as though all the world was a twister, whirling around her with all the noise and confusion and panic that came with the real thing. One thought crystalized, rising to the fore like bubble from the depths of a black ocean.

Scarlett was dead.

And with a loud POP! that no-one else could hear, Sesi's mind threw and exception and crashed.

Outwardly, it looked as though the girl had just been roused from a nap by a sudden noise. She shook her head, blinked a couple of times at the wolves in her vicinity and frowned at the dark space where her mother's body rested. "Shadow King," the silver girl said out loud - and then she bolted.

Last post from me!