Elias can't sleep.
Asha's ghost won't stop whispering. "You're getting close," she says. "Too close."
He doesn't know what it means, but she's becoming stronger. She can move things now. Sometimes, she cries. Once, Elias woke up with blood on his hands—hers.
Asha's pocket watch keeps ticking backwards. Counting down. Elias doesn't know what will happen when it hits zero—but it feels like an ending.
Or maybe… a beginning.