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[Cassandra POV]

Pain, an echo that tore through my soul like molten rods of flame through my spine. An absolute echo that refused to take its leave. But again, there was this sensation, one that ran down my eyes and itched through my body.

I opened my eyes, bleary and filled with pain as they were. And woke to the sight of absolute carnage. A body was below me. Two tails, singed with blood and flame, an arm that held together its form only by the tendons and barely broken bones. Another arm completely blown away.

The only recognizable feature was the pitiful face, filled with sorrow and rage. Two ears that once were perked so high with excitement and life. They now held low, their fur singed black against the gray of his hair.

I grit my teeth and looked around, for the man that had done all of this, to the one that had nearly killed me and…