Chapter 61. Your Kind

He pulls me nearer as the choked expression and numbness still me completely. Freezing out my thoughts as I blink and try to inhale through what he’s saying and almost fail at getting enough oxygen in the process. “She was running, from our kind, for fear of what they would do if they found out about you. And we were camping on the mountain’s south side, out there alone. I don’t think it was by chance… they imprinted on sight. It was… beautiful. I gained a mother in the blink of an eye and a few short months later, a baby sister.” His explanation cuts my heart from my soul and rips it into shreds, burning my body with intense pain as my brain stammers.

“No!… He was my dad too. He’s my dad… she’s my mom… you’re my brother. STOP IT!” The sobs break as every memory I possess is torn in two, and all I thought was real turns out to be a lie. I have clung to every moment, happy encounter, and image my whole life. None of it is real, and I was living in a fake world with people who w