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(Nova)

I didn't know what happened the day that little bitch Thalia Red attacked Vera with a dagger. One moment, there was this excruciating pain all over my body, like someone was melting my scales in a furnace, and then the next moment, I felt like I was floating in the void. There was only darkness there. Intense, blinding darkness.

I could hear Vera's voice calling out to me. I could hear her begging and crying for me to come back. Their voices were like a strange symphony dancing around me, and I felt them, felt their pain and love and suffering, but I couldn't reach her, reach him. I couldn't see them, see anything except the darkness.

The words I was saying back to her were lost in transition. It felt like there was an invisible wall between us, and the wall swallowed my sound, but transferred hers.

Those were the most horrible days of my life. I screamed and shouted and roared, but everything went unheard, and lost in that endless vacuum. The voices were slowly fading, and I