She Stole My Curse is an unforgettable short drama filled with fantasy, rebirth, revenge, and romance. Betrayed by the person she trusted most, she dies with nothing—only to awaken on the day everything began. This time, she refuses to repeat the past. Choosing the legendary Sea Dragon over false love, she sets out to reclaim her destiny, uncover hidden powers, and rewrite her future.
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00:00My sister poisoned all 10 of my children.
00:02Then she pushed me into a deep rift current tear.
00:05I died in the dark water below.
00:06And I woke up on the morning of the tide bond rate,
00:08staring at the same sky, breathing the same cold water.
00:11I lay still for a moment.
00:12Let it settle.
00:13We'd arrived on the abyssal realm together, my sister Sela and I.
00:16Two women dropped into a world that
00:18ran on tide power and blood wake.
00:20The clan chief had lined up every unmated male in the core.
00:23We were supposed to choose.
00:24In last life, Sela told me to take the lionfish rope.
00:27Lionfish lay soft eggs, easier than giving birth.
00:31She smiled like she was doing me a favor.
00:34She took the great white shark, the only A rank male.
00:36What she didn't tell me was that she already knew
00:38lionfish eggs hatched in large clutches.
00:42I chose Cole.
00:44I got pregnant fast.
00:45One clutch, 10 hatchlings, all A rank.
00:48In a coral clan that had seen maybe five A ranks in 100 years,
00:51that was enough to make Cole the next clan chief
00:53and turn me into something the coral elders called
00:56Abyss Chosen.
00:57Sela got one B rank from the great white shark,
01:00then another, then three more, nothing better.
01:02She couldn't accept it.
01:03She crept into Cole's reef den.
01:06He threw her out in front of the whole coral clan.
01:09The great white shark ended their bond
01:10and drove her and her children into the dead current.
01:13In less than a month, all five of her offspring starved.
01:16I was the one who took her back in.
01:17I gave her food.
01:18I gave her warmth.
01:19She killed my 10 hatchlings one by one
01:21and then she pushed me into a deep rift current tear.
01:24I still remember weightlessness.
01:26So this time, I was not choosing Cole.
01:29The tide bond right was already moving.
01:31The clan chief stood at the front, arms folded,
01:34watching the males line up.
01:35Sela was beside me, her shoulder just barely touching mine.
01:38I felt the exact moment she decided to move.
01:41A small shift in her weight, a breath she didn't finish.
01:43She crossed the water toward Cole like she'd rehearsed it,
01:46pressed herself against his arm, tipped her face up to the clan chief.
01:49She looked back at me, clan chief, that smile.
01:53I choose Cole.
01:54I looked at Cole.
01:55Cold current blood, no warmth in the dry tide.
01:58Three months of tide sleep every year,
02:01leaving whatever female he'd chosen to manage the reef den alone in the collapsing food chain.
02:05No hunting skills.
02:06Without the coral clan around him, he couldn't even feed himself.
02:09She thought she'd taken the prize.
02:11She didn't know what she would pay.
02:12I turned and looked at what was left.
02:14A B rank whale merfolk.
02:15Two sea rank sea turtle merfolk.
02:17Near the back, a manta ray merfolk who had been watching me since I swam in.
02:21Brow creased, expression difficult to read.
02:23I started toward him.
02:24The crowd shifted.
02:26I thought about my ten hatchlings.
02:27Quiet, good, never any trouble.
02:29A rank every one of them and felt something cold and settled move through the grief.
02:33Not this time.
02:34I was about to open my mouth.
02:36A palm hit my face so hard I bit my cheek.
02:40It's you!
02:41The female in front of me was bonded to the coral clan's tiger shark merfolk.
02:44She was shaking.
02:46In her hand was a white jellyfish tentacle filament that she said she'd found in her
02:49mate's reef den.
02:50Her tideship did form as a white jellyfish.
02:53The crowd turned.
02:55One voice at the back, then three more.
02:58I looked past her shoulder and found Sela near the middle of the crowd.
03:00She'd practiced that expression.
03:02I was certain of it.
03:03Last life, she hadn't needed it.
03:04Last life, I hadn't stood in her way.
03:06Oh, Lyra.
03:07I didn't want to say anything, but I did see you swimming with Leo that night.
03:12One sentence.
03:13Every door in the room closed at once.
03:15The manta ray merfolk stepped back.
03:17The clan chief's eyes were already on me.
03:18I tide shifted on the spot.
03:20White jellyfish.
03:21Clean tentacles.
03:21Full circle.
03:22Every angle.
03:23Nothing hidden.
03:24The crowd went quiet.
03:25I shifted back.
03:27No damaged tentacles.
03:29That filament isn't mine.
03:30A damaged tentacle root scar on my inner thigh.
03:32Small.
03:33Deliberate.
03:34Someone in the crowd saw it.
03:35That was enough.
03:36I had spent this entire second life thinking I understood what Sela was capable of.
03:40I had underestimated her.
03:42I looked at Sela one last time.
03:44She was holding back a smile.
03:45I turned and swam.
03:46No argument.
03:47No appeal.
03:48No tears.
03:49I swam through it with my back straight, and I didn't stop until I was outside.
03:53Sela came to see me off.
03:55Like a female who had already won.
03:57Don't worry, Lyra.
03:58There are powerful males out there.
04:00Maybe you'll find the right one.
04:01Thanks for the encouragement.
04:03Cole has a lot of stamina.
04:04Lionfish nature is what it is.
04:06Once or twice a day is just recreation for him.
04:08I watched the warmth leave her face.
04:09You should build up your strength.
04:11Wouldn't want to disappoint him.
04:12I turned and swam.
04:14Didn't look back.
04:15The coral clan's current line was a boundary of cold and warm currents meeting in the water.
04:19I crossed it without slowing.
04:20The dead current ahead was dark and unmapped, and the water was cold.
04:24She thought she'd won.
04:25She hadn't thought about the dry tide.
04:26Cole would enter tide sleep.
04:28Three months.
04:28Maybe more.
04:29She'd be alone in the reef den.
04:31No warmth.
04:32No provider.
04:32No idea how to feed herself when the food chain collapsed.
04:35She'd spent her whole life letting other people manage the hard parts.
04:37She had no idea what she'd actually chosen.
04:40I had swum this path.
04:41Last life I swam it in grief.
04:43With nothing to my name except a tide healer's knowledge I'd spent years building.
04:46This life I knew where it ended.
04:48At the far end of it there was a rift.
04:50Something inside that the coral clan had never seen and wouldn't know how to measure.
04:53Something that had been alone so long it had forgotten what trust looked like.
04:57He'd been close to dead when I found him.
04:58I was the one who pulled him back.
05:01I didn't make it far before I heard it behind me.
05:03Heavy strokes.
05:04Low and deliberate.
05:05Closing fast.
05:06A tide shifted without thinking.
05:08Dropped into jellyfish farm and fled.
05:10The water rushed past and the dead current blurred at the edges of my vision.
05:13Behind me the blue shark merfolk wasn't bothering to be quiet.
05:16He knew what a lone female outside clan borders meant.
05:19He knew how it ended.
05:20I fled until I saw the rock face.
05:22A narrow opening in the coral.
05:24Dark inside.
05:25Barely wide enough to turn sideways and fit through.
05:27I went in.
05:28Behind me the blue shark merfolk stopped.
05:30He circled the entrance twice.
05:32His strokes slowed.
05:33Then stopped entirely.
05:34He cursed once.
05:35Low and ugly.
05:36And I heard him leave.
05:37I didn't understand why.
05:38I shifted back and stood still.
05:40Breathing hard.
05:41The rift went deeper than I'd expected.
05:43The water inside was stale and cold.
05:45And underneath that.
05:46Something else.
05:47Rot.
05:48And infection.
05:49And the dense animal scent of something very large.
05:52I took one more step into the dark.
05:54Something in the black moved.
05:55I stopped.
05:55My heart was loud in my ears.
05:57The smell hit me harder now.
05:59Animal.
06:00Enormous.
06:00Close.
06:01Whatever was in here.
06:02The blue shark merfolk had known.
06:04Whatever was in here had made a predator who hunted lone females.
06:07Turn around without a sound and swim away.
06:09I stood in the dark and didn't move.
06:11I already knew what was in there.
06:13Last life it was the same rift.
06:15The same darkness.
06:16The same smell.
06:17I took one more step forward.
06:20The sound that came out of the dark was not a roar.
06:23It was bigger than that.
06:24It hit me in the chest before it reached my ears.
06:26A pressure through the water.
06:28Through my ribs.
06:29And for one full second my body simply stopped.
06:32Every instinct told me to turn around.
06:34My feet didn't move.
06:35The dark shifted.
06:36And then I saw him.
06:37Light.
06:38Enormous.
06:39His fin crest caught the faint bioluminescent light from the rift entrance and held it.
06:43His mouth was open wide enough to swallow my head whole.
06:46The sound still rolling out of him bounced off every wall and came back from all directions at once.
06:51He hadn't moved.
06:53I stood where I was and looked at him.
06:55The roar faded.
06:56The rift went silent.
06:57He still hadn't wounded.
06:59I had heard roars before.
07:00The great white shark merfolk in the coral clan.
07:02The whale males during mating season.
07:04Those roars said,
07:05I am here.
07:06I am dangerous.
07:07Come closer and find out.
07:08This was different.
07:09This roar said,
07:10Go away.
07:11I looked at his tail fin.
07:12Even in the dark I could see it.
07:14The flesh was wrong.
07:15Swollen and dark.
07:16Pale patches crawling through the wounds.
07:17The torn fin crest was infected at its root.
07:20He had been lying here a long time.
07:22Too long to hunt.
07:23Too long to do much of anything except wait.
07:25He opened his mouth and he sounded hit me again.
07:27I took one step toward him.
07:29The roaring stopped.
07:30Gold eyes in the dark.
07:32Very still.
07:32Watching me cross the distance between us one step at a time.
07:35I didn't stop swimming.
07:37I turned and fled again.
07:40I made it two strokes before I noticed something strange.
07:42The sea dragon was roaring.
07:44But he wasn't moving.
07:46He hadn't even shifted.
07:48It felt like he was just trying to scare me off.
07:50Then I smelled it.
07:51Rot and infection.
07:53I looked closer and saw the flesh of his tail fin.
07:56The wounds were deep and crawling with white.
07:58The fin crest was torn at the root.
08:01I stopped.
08:01I turned around.
08:03Hey, you're hurt.
08:04I know deep sea medicine.
08:06Will you let me stay?
08:07The sea dragon looked at me for a moment.
08:09Then he slowly unfolded his injured tail fin toward me.
08:13The wounds were bad.
08:14I gagged and got to work anyway.
08:16Opened my pack and found the wound powder.
08:18Before I'd arrived here, I'd studied tide healing and coral toxins.
08:22Once I was in the coral clan, that knowledge had made me the settlement's tide healer.
08:26I'd treated half the coral clan at one point or another.
08:29Not one of them had spoken up for me today.
08:31The bitterness sat heavy in my chest as I worked.
08:33When I finished, the sea dragon's aggression faded.
08:36He nudged his head against my sleeve.
08:37A thank you.
08:38Then his stomach growled.
08:39Twice.
08:40He'd been injured too long to hunt.
08:42He was starving.
08:43I'll go find food.
08:44Wait here.
08:46I turned to go.
08:48His tail curled around my ankle and pulled me back.
08:51Then he exhaled a low temperature, deep current that enveloped me entirely.
08:55The dragon current mark.
08:57His power on my skin would keep most predators back instinctively.
09:00I thought of the blue shark merfolk from earlier.
09:02This sea dragon's rank had to be extraordinary.
09:05That was the only explanation for that kind of deterrent effect.
09:07I didn't go far.
09:08I stayed close to the rift and gathered what I could find.
09:11Small crustaceans.
09:12Some edible reef plants.
09:13By the time I got back, the bioluminescence had dimmed to night cycle.
09:16No fire needed.
09:17The sea dragon's body put out a constant gentle warmth that filled the rift.
09:21I stayed.
09:22During the day, I changed his bandages.
09:23Foraged for water and food.
09:25At night, he curled around me in dragon form.
09:27His body warmth wrapping me like a second skin.
09:30And we slept together.
09:31Half a month passed.
09:32Then one day, I came back to the rift and stopped dead.
09:34A man lay where the sea dragon had been.
09:36You're back.
09:38White hair.
09:39Gold eyes.
09:41You're the sea dragon?
09:43My name is Vayne.
09:45With the wounds healed, Vayne could swim.
09:47He couldn't do anything strenuous yet.
09:49But the first time we went out together, he showed me what he was made of.
09:52A deep sea giant crab.
09:54Under a minute.
09:54He seared it with a short burst of breath, and it was done.
09:57That night, I ate real food for the first time in weeks.
10:00Crab shell crackling.
10:02Fat hissing and popping from the dragon breath heat.
10:04I ate until my face was greasy, and asked Vayne whether he was A rank.
10:08Are you A rank?
10:10No, I don't have a rank.
10:11I stared at him.
10:12Every male merfolk had a rank.
10:14But the tide power I'd seen from him was beyond anything the great white shark merfolk in the coral clan
10:19could manage.
10:19But your tide power...
10:21Vayne shook his head.
10:22No rank.
10:23Never had one.
10:25That was why his own clan had driven him out.
10:27They'd called him a monster.
10:28Abandoned him as a hatchling in the dead current.
10:30The memory clearly cost him something.
10:32His eyes went distant and sad.
10:34Born without a clan.
10:35Whatever had made him this strong, he'd earned it alone.
10:37The hard way.
10:38It doesn't matter.
10:40You have me now.
10:41We're friends.
10:42Vayne went red.
10:44Another month passed.
10:46Vayne healed completely.
10:47The dry tide was coming.
10:47We started going out early and coming back late to stock up.
10:50He hunted.
10:51I gathered deep sea medicines and reef plants.
10:53We came back full every time.
10:54I thought maybe it would just stay like this.
10:56Then Vayne's heat cycle hit.
10:57I woke up one morning to find his body burning.
10:59Don't leave the rift for a few days.
11:01I have to go somewhere.
11:03I have to go somewhere.
11:04Then he took two strokes and his body gave out.
11:06When he went down, I saw everything.
11:08I understood immediately.
11:09Every merfolk had a regular heat cycle.
11:11When it hit, instinct won over reason.
11:13He'd already pushed himself past his limit.
11:14Don't be scared.
11:15I won't touch you.
11:17I'll handle it myself.
11:18He was fighting his own body.
11:19His neck was corded with strain.
11:21The sounds coming from his throat were low and desperate.
11:23I watched him.
11:24My chest ached.
11:25Vayne, do you not want me?
11:28How could you even ask that?
11:32When his hands came up to hold me, I was scared.
11:35What coal had put me through had left its marks.
11:37He was always rough.
11:38There was no pleasure in it.
11:39Only something close to endurance.
11:41Vayne was stronger than coal by a wide margin.
11:43I braced myself.
11:44But there was no pain.
11:45Vayne was gentle in a way I hadn't known was possible.
11:48Like his fin pressed against still water.
11:50Light enough that I felt like I was floating.
11:52I lost track of time.
11:53When I finally noticed the world again, the dry tide currents had shifted outside the rift.
11:57That dry tide, I was warm.
11:59Vayne kept the rift heated with his body warmth.
12:01When the cold currents pressed in, he curled tighter.
12:03At night, he wrapped me in his warmth.
12:05His dragon form pulled around me like a second skin.
12:08After that first time, he became a little enthusiastic.
12:10Eye contact.
12:11Next thing I knew, I was against the rift wall.
12:14Not that I minded.
12:15He was good at it.
12:16I never once wanted to pull away.
12:17With that kind of frequency and no precautions,
12:19it wasn't long before I noticed something different about my body.
12:22I pressed two fingers to my wrist and checked my pulse.
12:25Pregnant.
12:26When I told Vayne, he went still.
12:29Really?
12:30You're really carrying my hatchling?
12:33He lifted me straight off the seabed.
12:35We were both laughing.
12:36After that, he treated me like I was made of sea glass.
12:38He was at my side constantly.
12:40He insisted on doing everything himself.
12:42Lying in the warmth of his arms, I thought again about last time.
12:45Cole was a cold current, blood-tight merfolk.
12:47In the dry tide, he gave off no heat at all.
12:49And he entered tide sleep.
12:51While other males made sure their females were fed through the season,
12:53I was out in the dead current alone, trying to find something edible.
12:56My tide healing skills kept me fed, barely.
12:59The merfolk I treated gave me scraps.
13:01But after the ten lionfish hatchlings were born, scraps weren't enough.
13:04Cole entered tide sleep.
13:05He could survive on stored energy.
13:07The hatchlings were too young.
13:09They needed real food, constantly.
13:10I foraged alone.
13:12A white jellyfish, small and not built for hunting in the dry tide, who didn't dare go far.
13:16I brought back small crustaceans.
13:18I brought back dried reef algae.
13:20The hatchlings were good.
13:21All ten of them.
13:21A rank.
13:22And not one of them ever picked a fight or made trouble.
13:24They helped with the reef den work.
13:26Thinking about them, my throat closed.
13:27I'd failed them.
13:28I hadn't kept them safe.
13:31Lyra, what's wrong?
13:32I wiped the corner of my eye.
13:34Just homesick.
13:35He went quiet.
13:36Is being with me not enough?
13:37No.
13:38That's not it.
13:39Being with you is the best thing there is.
13:41I changed the subject.
13:42I'd assumed I'd never see my sister again.
13:44She showed up at our rift that same night.
13:47Vayne heard the sounds.
13:48He went to check.
13:48I heard a familiar shriek.
13:49Please don't kill me!
13:49Sea dragon, please!
13:51I came out to find my sister in the water outside the rift entrance.
13:54I looked at her in the dark and almost laughed.
13:56Lyra?
13:56Why are you here?
13:57You know her?
13:58Never seen her before.
13:59Vayne's intent sharpened immediately.
14:00Lyra!
14:01My sister screamed.
14:02Don't let him kill me!
14:03I came all this way to save you!
14:06Sis!
14:06That word, sis, it stopped Vayne cold.
14:10He pulled back.
14:11Is there a misunderstanding, Lyra?
14:13I sighed.
14:14I swam over to my sister.
14:17What do you want?
14:18She put on her most conciliatory face.
14:19I talked to the clan chief.
14:21He said you can come back.
14:23I didn't move.
14:24She pushed harder.
14:25And Lyra, the coral clan is in trouble.
14:28Two settlements are about to go to war in a current war.
14:30This whole area is going to become a battlefield.
14:33You two aren't aligned with either side.
14:34You'll get caught in the middle.
14:35Hearing my sister's warning, I remembered.
14:37There had been a current war.
14:39Last time.
14:40But last time, the war had ended because of my 10 lionfish hatchlings hatching.
14:4410 A-rank merfolk born at once.
14:47The opposing clan, the Hora, had taken one look and surrendered on the spot.
14:51He was the one who declared me abyss chosen.
14:53Said I carried a rare destiny.
14:55That I had been sent to the coral clan as a gift from the abyss god.
14:59But I had no interest in my sister's advice.
15:01Vayne and I had built something real out here.
15:03There was no reason to go back.
15:04I told her no.
15:05No.
15:08She looked straight at my stomach.
15:10Lyra, you're pregnant, aren't you?
15:12Even if you don't care about yourself, think about the child.
15:15You two can live free out here for now.
15:18But what about later?
15:19What about your hatchling?
15:20Do you really want to raise a child with no clan behind them?
15:23That landed.
15:24This world was brutal.
15:25Vayne, as strong as he was, had nearly died alone and wrecked.
15:29What would happen when our child was born?
15:30And the dead current was full of things that wanted to eat them.
15:33I looked at Vayne.
15:34He seemed to read what I was thinking.
15:36He came over and took my hand.
15:38Lyra, let's go back.
15:40After I told my sister yes, she let out a long breath.
15:42Then, is there anything to eat?
15:45She ate like she hadn't seen food in weeks.
15:47Her stomach was enormous, but her arms and fins were thin as coral sticks.
15:51She'd had it rough.
15:52Not hard to guess why.
15:54Cole had almost certainly entered tide sleep by now.
15:56My sister had never worked hard a day in her life.
15:59Nothing short of starvation would have pushed her out here.
16:01After the meal, she lay down in the outer part of the rift to rest.
16:05Vayne folded me into his arms as usual.
16:07My sister glanced over from across the rift.
16:09The look on her face was pure envy.
16:12In the middle of the night, I got up.
16:14I believe this life and she still gets to eat like that.
16:18Bonded to some rankless creature and she still got nerve to look pleased with herself.
16:23She rubbed her belly.
16:23Come on, little ones.
16:25Come out fast.
16:26I stood in the dark and let it wash over me.
16:28Even now, I couldn't fully understand where her hatred came from.
16:31We were twins.
16:33Before we'd ended up here, our parents died in an accident.
16:36Left the two of us to figure out the world together.
16:38I remembered what they'd always said.
16:40You're the older one.
16:41Take care of your sister.
16:42So I did.
16:43I gave way.
16:44Every time, on everything.
16:46Whatever was best, I let her have it.
16:48Somewhere along the line, she'd decided that was simply how things should be.
16:52I was supposed to give her everything good.
16:54I was supposed to be beneath her.
16:55I wasn't allowed to have things she didn't have.
16:58By the third day back in the Coral Clan,
17:00I understood exactly why she'd worked so hard to bring me home.
17:02Her due date was close.
17:04She was terrified of dying on the birthing ground.
17:06She needed me there.
17:07I had gotten her through all three.
17:08There was a second reason, too.
17:10She wanted me to watch.
17:11She wanted me standing there when she produced 20 A-rank lionfish merfolk
17:15and climbed to the top of the Coral Clan.
17:17She wanted to see my face.
17:20Life back in the Coral Clan wasn't easy.
17:22Even with Vayne beside me, plenty of females still looked at me with hostility.
17:25They didn't want me near their mates, so I stayed close to the reef den.
17:28I was shut out.
17:29My sister, meanwhile, used her memories from last time to play prophet.
17:32She predicted a few major clan events and a stretch of bad current accurately enough
17:36that the Coral Clan elevated her status considerably.
17:39She told everyone she was the Abyss chosen, sent by the Abyss God, carrying 20 A-rank merfolk.
17:44The Coral Clan believed her completely.
17:46Then the current war began.
17:47Vayne was sent to the front.
17:48Within days, every fighter in the Coral Clan had noticed that his Dragon Tide Power exceeded that of the A
17:54-rank
17:54great white shark merfolk by a significant margin.
17:57His raw strength was in a different category altogether.
18:00This world ran on Tide Power.
18:01Strength was everything.
18:02And yet, because Vayne came out unranked, the great white shark merfolk grew jealous.
18:07He gathered the other males and turned on Vayne.
18:09They sent him alone into an aura ambush.
18:11When the others had what they needed from the distraction, they swam.
18:14Left him there.
18:15I didn't find out until Vayne came back with serious wounds.
18:19I went straight.
18:20It's fine, Lyra.
18:21Vayne caught my arm.
18:22Even with all of that, they still couldn't touch me.
18:24I came back in one piece, didn't I?
18:25I looked at the cuts across his body.
18:27Vayne, I'm sorry.
18:29I shouldn't have brought you back here.
18:31This place isn't right for you.
18:33Let's go home.
18:34Back to the rift.
18:35No.
18:36He was suddenly urgent.
18:37If we go back, you'll be homesick again.
18:39We stay here.
18:41As long as you and the hatchling are safe, I don't care what they do to me.
18:44Something cracked open in my chest.
18:46I remembered what I'd said in the rift.
18:48That I was homesick.
18:49He'd been carrying that the entire time.
18:51You are my home.
18:52He thought I meant the Coral Clan.
18:53Let's go.
18:54Just the two of us.
18:56I'd almost convinced him.
18:58Lyra, get to your sister's reef den.
19:01She's going into labor.
19:03I heard the screaming before I reached the entrance.
19:05I swam inside.
19:06Blood in the water.
19:07The same scene as the first time.
19:08Last life.
19:09When she'd had her first bad labor.
19:10Back then, it was the great white shark Merfolk's fault.
19:12His build was large.
19:13The offspring inherited the size.
19:15The head got stuck.
19:16But lionfish eggs were soft and small.
19:18They should have come out easily.
19:19I got my answer fast.
19:20I helped her deliver ten eggs.
19:21Then I felt more inside.
19:22I was reaching for the next one.
19:24When my sister's body seized.
19:28She's convassing.
19:29Nobody here knew that word.
19:30I shouted instructions.
19:31They found a smooth piece of coral and pressed it between her teeth.
19:33So she couldn't bite through her tongue.
19:35I used the moment to pull the rest of the eggs out.
19:37I counted.
19:37Twenty in total.
19:38She passed out when it was done.
19:40I mixed a tonic and got it down her throat.
19:41If she makes it through tonight, she'll live.
19:43If she doesn't, there's nothing more I can do.
19:45I turned to leave.
19:46Cole grabbed my wrist.
19:48She's your sister.
19:49You should stay and take care of her.
19:51Even now.
19:52Even with his female unconscious in the water from a dangerous labor.
19:55He didn't want to sit with her through one night.
19:58She's your mate.
19:59Not mine.
20:00I'm not responsible for her.
20:03I've already done far more than she deserves.
20:07I swam out of the reef den into open water and felt the exhaustion hit me all at once.
20:11Vane was waiting outside.
20:13My heart twisted.
20:14What are you doing here?
20:15With wounds that bad, you should be resting in the-
20:19He pulled me into his arms before I could finish.
20:22His voice was rough.
20:24Lyra, we're not leaving.
20:26I started to ask why.
20:27Then I felt it.
20:28Something warm and wet soaking into my shoulder.
20:30I brought him back to our reef den.
20:32Pushed him until he talked.
20:33He cried harder.
20:34Vane had been waiting outside my sister's reef den the entire time.
20:37He'd heard everything.
20:39He hadn't known that was what birth looked like.
20:41He hadn't known it could be like that.
20:42He was terrified.
20:43If I went into labor out in the dead current and something went wrong,
20:46there would be no one to help me.
20:48I felt tears on my own face before I realized.
20:50Vane, not everyone has a labor like hers.
20:53Maybe mine will be easy.
20:55Then we're still not leaving.
20:56His voice didn't waver.
20:57Even if the chance is one in a hundred, I won't let you suffer.
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