Chapter Fifteen
Waking this time felt like clawing my way through a pile of sand. Every part of me was itching and dry, my throat was so parched I could barely screech out a sound, and my muscles protested every attempt to move. I wondered if I had finally dried up like a fall leaf and this was my new existence until I became dust and blew away. Then I felt the flickering torchlight on my eyelids, and heard tiny scuffling feet nearby, and I knew I was still in that hole of a dungeon.
I blinked my eyes open and watched the faint torchlight make the shadows flicker over the ceiling. The scuffling sounds grew louder. They were too large to be bugs or rats crawling nearby. A harsh whisper drifted to me from the cave beyond the crevice I was tucked into.
“No, I’m not going back in there unti
