Sunbeam Lair As he[a righteous man] breaks, so shall it [hell] break

The voice broke his calm, violently pulling him back to the present. With an uncharacteristic jump he turned to the sound that disturbed him. He wasn’t surprised to see the visage of his sister. His entire family had haunted his flashbacks in the last three months. Taunting him and provoking him. Cursing his very existence.

His heart speed up to match the panic that had been rising in his system, his eyes widened, and he released a shaky breath. As he realized that once again his mind was attacking him, his eye shut forcefully as he tried to stop himself from crying.

“No, no, no!” He murmured to himself, with a head shake trying to dislodge the mounting fear. “Please go away.” Siarut had a desperate edge to his voice as he willed the hallucination to go away.

If he had been in his right mind, the northern man might have noticed the subtle differences between the woman that haunted him and the reality of his true sister standing before him. But the man was clearly not in his right mind.