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me. They’re talking to each other, not to me. I squint, staring into the dark distance, hoping for a twinkle of light, a miracle of hope . . . anything. Try again, Finn, before the voices are gone forever. Call out one more time. Give it everything you have left . . .
    “Hello.” My cry is faint and fragile, but maybe . . . just maybe . . .
    No . . . still nothing.
    The tears stop flowing; I’m too tired to cry. I’m overcome with exhaustion. I just want to let go. I gently close my eyes, and my body surrenders. I can feel myself sinking into the blackness feetfirst. It’s cold to begin with, but then I don’t feel anything. It’s as if my toes are vanishing from the world. I just can’t fight anymore. There isn’t anything left to hold on to. I don’t even have the strength to panic.
    The feeling of nothingness slowly creeps up my body, enveloping my legs, then my hips, and crawls up over my stomach and chest like an icy blanket. A silent breath seeps from my lips as the dark coldness folds up over my mouth and nose. I peer into the darkness one last time to say good-bye to a life that offered me more questions than answers and, in the end, more pain than love.
    I can’t feel my skin or my arms or legs anymore; my hands and feet are gone from existence. I can’t feel my face. Only the edges of my eyes remain. As I close my weary eyes, I find, to my surprise, that my final emotion is one of gratitude. Even through all the bad, there was enough good to make me so very thankful.
    Thankful that I had a chance to live at all.
    The cold of the void finally covers me completely, taking me away, back to nothing, and as my thoughts drift away into nowhere, the very last thing I’m able to feel . . . is my heart . . . beat . . . stop.

A spike of pain lancing deep into my chest.
    A high-pitched squeal.
    Heat and pain pumping through me.
    My back arches like my spine is trying to burst through my rib cage, and my teeth grind in my skull. My animal instincts scream at me to fight this unseen attacker as my jaw clenches in rolling spasms and my eyes snap back in my head.
    I’m hit by a bolt of lightning. I scream out into the void, my cry echoing through the dark. A gust of wind rips violently through me, and my whole body is wrenched from the ocean of darkness like a fish on a hook as an intense explosion of white light bursts on a far horizon. Everything fades back to black. My skin burns with a cold electric fire and crackles with sparks of pure energy.
    “Ohhhh . . . mmyyy . . . god!” says one of the voices. The faraway voice I heard before seems nearer now. The words are closer together, faster, easier to understand. And if I’m not crazy or mistaken, they almost sounded like . . .
    “She took a breath and opened her eyes for a second! What was that?” asks the voice, and I know it for sure. It’s Bit.
    I don’t know how, but I can hear her.
    “That, girlie, was a massive dose of fortified adrenaline. Right into her heart,” says the other voice. It’s still quite far away, but I can understand it now, too. It’s the voice of the bearded man.
    The burst of air seems to have cleared my head a little. I can feel my senses slowly gathering back into my mind as the static sparks dancing across my limbs begin to wane. I flex and stretch my arms; I can move again, much slower and with more difficulty than I’m used to, but at least now I feel closer to being alive than dead.
    “Hello?” I call out into the void.
    “Did you . . . ? I swear, I just heard something!” Bit’s voice says from somewhere in the darkness. “I heard it in my head.”
    “Hellooooo!” I shout out again.
    “It’s Finn! I can hear her! Finn, it’s me, Bit! I can hear you!”
    “Concentrate on our voices, Finn,” says the man. “Pull them toward you. Keep talking to her, girlie.”
    “Finn, we’re here to help!”
    I focus on Bit’s voice and will it to come closer.
    “Dr. Pierce says