Ivy: The moment Attor stepped forward, the calmness in the room seemed to soak into every corner of the room. It was almost as if time stopped still. He reached out, and his black claw, rough and jagged, met my forehead, making a burning sensation sizzle throughout my body. A blood-curdling scream had my mates charging the healer, but I stopped them, surrounding the two of us in a protective bubble. It may have hurt enough to make me scream, but I saw the vision forming behind my eyes, and whatever it was, I needed to see it. I called out to my mates, reassuring them through their anger and fear that this needed to happen and that I needed to know. It was as if the moment I accepted what was happening, the room shifted to something new. I stood in the cosmos, thinking it wasn't w