As much as I wanted to return, I decided to stay and help Annabeth.
I held the dagger with both hands over the basin of water. I took a deep breath, mentally confirming my decision. I opened my cupped hands and watched the dagger fall into the basin. Seconds felt like minutes as I watched it dropping down into the water. Once the dagger touched the water, the rippling liquid turned murky green.
In the reflection, I saw myself lying there on the hospital bed. Soon I heard an alarm; the monitor screeched the long sharp tone of death. The ECG wave on the monitor went flat. A group of nurses and doctors rushed in and started resuscitation.
I saw my family standing in the corner, watching and crying. Tears welled up in my eyes and blurred my vision.
The resuscitation went on for twenty minutes before they gave up and the time of death was declared. My tears dropped into the basin, sending ripples across its surface, erasing whatever image and links I had with my old world.
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D-Nine: Protectors of the Crown
FantasyDr. James Khoo struggles with what he thinks is a series of severe migraines, faints and wakes to a world so different from the one he knew as his own. Now a medieval princess in the Kingdom of Edonia, Sarabeth must ward off an army of assassins tha...
