~ RONAN ~
A blind rage slams into me. Kael is howling in my head, a sound of pure agony that rattles through every nerve, bone, and cell in my body. It's as if we're being ripped apart from the inside out, our very consciousness being devoured by something far stronger than us.
All I can see is blood-soaked darkness. My vision turns hazy, the edges blurring into a mist. The hallway stretches around me but it's moving, shifting, the walls bending in ways that shouldn't be possible.
Oh hell. The curse.
I can feel it closing in on us, not physically, but like a pressure that's building in my chest, my skull, behind my eyes. It's clawing its way toward Kael. He howls again, and the sound echoes through my bones like thunder.
My legs buckle beneath me.
I grip the wall to steady myself but
