Thane
I had felt pain before. My human life had been full of it but the years had dulled it until it was nothing more than a memory that seemed to be of someone else. There would be no dulling this. I would remember it and wince in ten years, in a century. A thousand years could pass and I would still remember.
Not that I was going to live to see any of that happening.
I was dying and I knew it. Death was the only thing that ended pain like this. It was the only escape.
And I needed the escape.
I needed this all to end.
The pain.
It was like nothing on earth. Like someone had poured acid through my veins and lava over my skin. It was more than burning.
It was….
It was.. Hell.
The sound of Melanie’s laughter filled my ears, drowning out the sound of my blood rushing through my
