Chapter 50

Lyra

My shoulder aches.

Everything hurts. Every muscle in my body. My bones. My skin. Everything. It took an impossible amount of energy for me to climb the stairs just now. And to walk down the hallway on the second floor just now.

When I'm just a step away from the room, I falter. My other hand goes against my shoulder, and I press on the wound, on the cut, on the cut that hasn't