"Razeal!!!" Selena's scream tore out of her like something resurrected from the grave, raw and unrestrained, as she pushed herself up from the ground where she had been kneeling moments ago broken, emptied, stripped of light.. her world collapsed by the revelation of his marriage. But the instant she sensed him, truly sensed him, something inside her reignited. The hollowness vanished. The blankness shattered. Her eyes, which had been dull and lifeless, flared back to life with desperate brilliance. She rose so abruptly her legs almost failed her, but she did not stop. She ran.
She did not think about dignity. She did not think about the ruined capital around her, about the shattered buildings, the watching eyes, the blood on the ground. She ran like someone who had been suffocating underwater and had finally seen the surface. Tears streamed down her face before she even realized she was crying, her breath breaking unevenly in her chest as she pushed her exhausted body forward.
