It was bright and early when Madeline awoke drenched in sweat from the sudden fever that had gripped her during the night. She had gone into her room after Alvise had left her, she had changed into her night wares and she had gone to bed and fallen asleep almost immediately. However, she had woken up to her body acting up again after having had a nightmare from the past. She had lay there shivering and crying quietly as her heart pounded erratically against her heavily heaving chest.
And when she could take it no ore, she had pulled herself together, flicked the bedside lamp on and begun fumbling with the plastic containers in which her medications were kept. Her hands trembling badly almost causing the pills to completely spill out of the container, it had taken all of her to pop them in
