Chapter 37: The Birth
POV: Elowen Hart
The pain was on another level, it tore through my belly and back in unbearable waves that came faster and faster, each one stronger than the last, until there was no space left between them to remember what it felt like not to hurt.
At some point I could barely breathe, I'd count the seconds, gasping through pursed lips the way the nurse had shown me but even that did not help reduce the misery I found myself in. I have never felt that type of pain ever in my life before, I didn't even know a body could hold that much pain and still be alive, It was like my stomach was being skinned open from the inside, peeled back layer by layer, then cinched tight and squeezed like a wet towel and just when I thought it had peaked, it found another gear.
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