Chapter 100

Darkness pressed against me like a second skin.

I couldn’t tell how long I’d been unconscious. Time had unraveled, slipping into a fog of distant echoes and numbed limbs. I was floating, drifting in a heavy, poisonous sleep.

Until pain woke me.

A sharp, aching cold ran through my arms. I tried to move, but my muscles barely responded. My tongue felt thick in my mouth, and the weight on my chest ma