Chapter 12As I writhed and shrieked on the floor, a wave of scalding pain roared through me, roasting every rational thought and normal sensation in its path. Even for someone who'd been through 115 years of pure Hell, it was impossible not to be crushed by the force of this cresting wall of destruction.
I felt like I was on fire, burning alive from the inside out. Thrashing and howling, I was too consumed by the blazing pain even to muster a conscious wish for it to end. I was reduced to a billow of sparks, unaware of anything but the heat of my own sizzling flame.
Then, I felt another force rise up within me and catch hold of the firestorm. Like mercury in a thermometer tossed into a bonfire, the pain soared rapidly, spiking to its highest intensity yet. Then it stopped and revers
