Kiros

Sneak Peek: Raela

My reflection was wrong.

I stood in front of the bathroom mirror, a fluffy white towel wrapped around my body, staring at my reflection.

It showed that my dark brown hair was wet and dripping, starting to curl up at the ends like they always did. I knew that was true. I could feel the cold water rolling down my back. It showed that my olive skin was not unhealthy, but it wasn't exactly glowing either. That was true too. It showed a strong girl with bright blue eyes and a future.

This, I knew, was not true at all.

Over the past two days, things had gone from bad to worse. There was no food, and I hadn't been able to pick any up while I was rummaging through Feenk's shop. There was limited water, and unless we landed and refilled, we were going to run out of water in about a week. There was one bed which we--Cahn and I-- decided to give to Leni. Him being stabbed and all.

Oh, yeah. He got stabbed, if you don't remember. We had managed to keep him alive for the past two days, but it was really hard to monitor him considering we were in a racer and not a med-ship.

Cahn had told me he was stable when we took off from Luuo, but within a few hours, he wasn't. According to my Carar acquaintance, he had the beginnings of an infection in the stab wound in his stomach. An infection that could potentially become fatal.

The stab wound was already bad enough. We didn't know if it hit anything vital or not, and he hadn't woken up from a coma, so we didn't know what he was feeling.

I wasn't going to let Leni die. I couldn't. Nothing was going to stop me from helping him live. Not even Cahn's cold composure and stony silence 24/7.

When I looked up into my eyes in the mirror, I saw my blue eyes staring back at me with an emptiness. I remembered when they held a light that brightened a room. I remembered when I still felt whole.

But now... Inside, I was falling apart. I was shattering like a glass someone had dropped on the ground. I was breaking into a million pieces.

And I let myself.

I was alone, after all. No one could see me as a tear fell down my face. No one could see my weakness as I let it out in the form of salty water. I had lost everything. And now I was about to lose Leni, the closest person I had to a friend (a living one, anyway), too.

"Kiros?" A knock on the door startled me and I hurriedly wiped the tears from my face.

I cleared my throat and tightened the towel around my body. "Yes, Cahn?"

"Leni's waking up."

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Dear readers,

There's the excerpt from the first chapter of Raela. I hope you're as excited as me for it. I don't have a set date for the release, because I still have to figure out a bunch of stuff. But be assured, I have started, and I'm hoping to leave you updates every once in a while to let you all know what's up.

Thank you for reading, have a nice life.

-flygirl1

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