•~•Chapter 78•~•

Hayden rouses with a jolt, clarity coming like a rush of water, it's like one moment he's fast asleep and the next he's so hyperawre without even having to open his eyes.

A frown furrows between his brows as the first thing that registers is why there were so many scents and smells, like he had fallen asleep in a perfumery.

Each one vivid and so distinct, no two scent merged which was even stranger than the fact that his nose was suddenly working so well.

He catches a whiff of strawberries and dark chocolate and his eyes snap open, awareness clicking in place instinctively...

it was Virgil's...

He had no idea why he knew that or how he even knew that but he just did, it was certain.

When he starts to adjust to the onslaught of scents that are so vivid he can almost see them in color, everything becomes too loud.