#Chapter 196: Sent Away

Audrey Silver arrows rained down from a dark sky. Straight toward my mother, laying in her hospital bed, hooked up to countless tubes and machines. “No!” I ran to my mother’s sleeping form and threw myself over her just moments before the first arrow hit, shielding her from the shower. I made it just in time; though the arrows pierced my back, blinding pain shooting through my body, she was safe. Protected. Or so I thought. When the arrows finally stopped coming, I pulled back, arms still wrapped around her. “Mom—” I felt my stomach sink. My mother… She was choking on my blood. Liquid silver had seeped out of my wounds, pooling around her, soaking into the hospital sheets. As if it had a life of its own, it rose up and slipped into her mouth, her nose, her eyes, crept up her arms and legs and across her torso until she was completely covered. Then, it covered me, too. I didn’t scream. Although I didn’t know if that was because