Leilani.
Her reaction made me so shocked that I didn't immediately know whether to run after her or to laugh. And when she continued to run— to the gates— something within me snapped.
My brain, which at this point seemed forever frozen, picked up signals, and I immediately dashed after her, screaming wildly at the top of my voice as I tried to reassure her that I was indeed not a ghost.
But did she stop?
Hell no!
If anything, the fact that I was running after her made her run even faster. She rushed through the high gates, stumbled into the quiet streets ahead and continued to scream as loud as a banshee, causing the guards and the maidservants all around to turn and stare in her direction, as if in shock.
I do not know how I did it, nor do I care, but one minute, I was a couple of metres away from her and in the next, I was tackling her to the ground and throwing my entire weight against her as we both crashed to the hard ground.
