Of the millions of reasons you say you have for why you cannot be with me, you haven't given me a single one. But, alas you're gone, anyway.

In the supernatural realm, creatures gather in the Vail, an academy for students with paranormal abilities. Saana Korhonen, one of the only Sânge Hex left, is ravaged by nightmares of her past, the brutal killing of her family plaguing her every thought. Moments of the massacre engrained into the memory of her bones, but her mind in a perpetual state of disremembrance. Tormented by the night terrors filled with strangers who tell her strange things, the truth indecipherable through the chaos. No one will listen, dismissing her dreams as trauma induced PTSD, but she thinks they mean something more. And maybe they do. ~ A murder on the castle grounds catapults Saana into a world familiar but forgotten and lost to her. The arrival of Vulkan Payne, a Commander in the Lycan Legion, precipitates a whirlwind of emotions and recognition. Perhaps the past, should stay right where it is... ~ Will she learn the truth?

There was you, and there was me. Alone in the sea, wondering if I'll ever be the same, again. poem based on a prompt. one shot story And Then 2021 Contest