Kali:
I woke in the same spot where I had fallen asleep, no longer chilled to the bone or soaking wet. My clothes had dried to my back like the blood on my skin, making every inch of me feel crusty and wrong.
It shouldn't be this way.
I couldn't let it be this way... Could I?
I didn't have to open my eyes to know I was surrounded; I could smell each of their unique scents in the air.
I tapered my breathing, taking in their slow, long, deep lungfuls.
Uncle Denny.
Auntie Fallon.
Nana.
My cousins.
My parents.
My grandparents.
My great grandparents.
Each generation that meshed to make the Grimm family surrounded me, and still, I couldn't open my eyes, admit to myself they were gone, and swallow seeing the pity in their eyes. I couldn't do it.
"We know you're awake, baby. Come
