Unexpected Care

THE NEXT DAY

DAPHNE

When I forced my heavy eyelids open the following morning, my physical body felt as though it had been repeatedly crushed under a block of solid stone. The lingering, suffocating heat of the breaking fever continued to buzz beneath my flushed skin, wrapping me in a sheen of cold sweat. The residual sickness left my limbs feeling heavy, weak, and practically fused to the expen