"Rest while you can," he said, standing. "I won't go easy on you tomorrow."
As the door closed behind him, I clenched my fists tighter, my nails digging into my palms. My hatred for him burned brighter than ever.
He wanted to break me. But I wasn't going to let him.
Sleep claimed me faster than I expected, my exhaustion too great to resist. But peace did not come with it.
Darkness engulfed me, a suffocating void that pressed against my chest. The air was heavy, carrying an eerie chill that made my skin crawl. I stood in the middle of an endless forest, its towering trees twisted and gnarled, their bare branches like skeletal fingers reaching toward the blackened sky.
The ground beneath my feet was damp and cold, the soft squelch of mud echoing in the silence. A thick fog swirled aroun
