Chapter 16 I Just Want To Go Home

• L A N A
• I am painfully aware of how small I feel standing here.
• Not just physically, though that is impossible to ignore, the way Dante stands taller than everyone else in the room, the way his presence seems to take up space without effort, but emotionally too, like I am a child who wandered into a world I was never meant to see. My skin feels too tight, my nerves stretched thin, every sound and movement registering too loudly inside me.