My stomach twisted and my hands shook slightly as I raised them to rest over my stomach. She knew about what I had inside me...?
The woman, still grinning wickedly, cackled at my reaction. "You don't look surprised. Thought you could keep such power to yourself?"
She looked at me as if she were about to eat me. "Consuming an energy like that could keep me young and beautiful for an eternity..."
My mouth felt dry. My ability could do something like that?
I was scared. I wouldn't lie. The idea of giving something inside me to this questionable woman I didn't even know scared me. But there was one thought that drove me. One thought alone made enough energy surge through my arm to raise it and outstretch my hand to the woman.
It was for Sora.
The woman took my hand in her wrinkly one, and the moment we shook on it, my blood ran cold.
Her grin split, stretching far across her face and baring huge, jagged teeth. My heartbeat quickened as I watched, her body stretching into something unholy.
Mother of god...
What had I gotten myself into...?!

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I felt dead inside. Hallow.
My entire body ached as I hobbled carefully out the front door of the shack. In my trembling hands, I grasped the vile. The vile of Sora's cure. Everything would be okay now... Sora would be safe... All I had to do was take it to him.
I swallowed the pain, working through it with ease with my one thought in tow. I hadn't made it far, already aching immensely, when I stopped.
And there he was.
There was Sora in front of me. Why was here...? Of all places... Why the woods...?
Was I swaying...?
Through the blur of my vision, I could only just see the pained look on his face. Why did he look that way...?
My legs wobbled as I approached him, struggling to keep my balance and see through the fog in my head. Looking him straight in the face, I held out my hands. The trembling, clammy hands which weakly clasped onto the vile, and I smiled at him.
"...I got it," I whispered. "I got it, Sora...."
That was the last thing I got out before I collapsed on the ground, losing consciousness instantly.