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That jarsI' me out," I say "He's sexier than any other man in any world I've been forced to enter, yes, but there can be nothing between us And I can'tfatho created for me I can't be the Heroine"

"I was in denial for a while, too"

My head is about to explode I take a deep breath "Look, I've never been special Or lucky Or even really good at anything I'm a nobody Heroes are soh "They're not me My own family thinks I'm a loser! How can this whole world exist for s," she replies "Not always because they choose to and rarely because they want to But you knohat? When it ht they'd take"

I'u ed in this neorld is also dissipating

"There's another thing" I' to remain afloat "He's kind of a mass-?"

"Really? That's the best you can do? You knohy he fights" She laughs

"Yes" I clae that he hasn't been the ht he was since he told me what's at stake

I'ets harder and my dream ripples as if someone tossed a stone into the middle of it

"Oh, to activate thewith the dreaetting sick of learning pieces of the puzzle without being able to see the full picture

My eyelids open to reveal the stone ceiling of a hold Or castle Fortress Whatever it is I'ine we're still at the Red Knight's, but I also don't think I was in any shape to bewhen I wake up this tiive me a moment to ht and my eyebrows shoot up

His nose is crooked, one eye black and his cheekbones bruised Despite this, his rugged, chiseled,every ti his jaw to the intent way he looks at ood looking this man is