Nothing left of her.

She glared as he warily approached. The once tender look kept only for him, was now void of anything but an animal insistence to hunt and protect, like a lioness. What was she protecting?

He swallowed the knot of emotion. "Rahna, it's me... I won't hurt you," he crept closer, heart sinking when the flash of recognition he'd hoped for never came...

She leapt.

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Art by Yefim Kligerman