Chapter 160

The first thing I felt was cold.

Not the crisp air of dawn or the soothing chill of mountain wind, but a damp, suffocating cold that seeped into my bones and made my skin crawl.

My body was heavy, pinned by something I couldn’t see, and every breath I took tasted of stone, water, and old blood.

I forced my eyes open.

Darkness pressed in on all sides, broken only by faint, sickly white flames danci