The spell Peter had casted on Gigiana had already diminished, but she kept her eyes closed to avoid attracting any form of torture from him. She pondered on why Malcolm hadn't come to rescue her, "or was he hating her too?" she shivered at the thought of that. She had expended the last of Zah'thik's energy to message him. Even if the plant demon still had a tiny bit of energy, there was no one to reach out to.
She felt abandoned and rejected. Rejected by her parents, by her mother, her sister, and the man she once fell in love with. She had just six hours left before Peter would come back to feast on her, and all she could think of was what the outcome would have been if she hadn't left her pack or betrayed Malcolm. She had trusted that monster blindly, and this was what it had result
