Her back struck a wall hard and then Violet was on the floor struggling to breathe. A burning sensation spread from her chest to her ribs. Black sludge coated the floor and slowly spread towards her. Violet really didn’t want to touch it. Images of a substance like it being injected into her veins flashed in her mind. Now was not the time to try to figure that out. Survive. Everything else could wait.
Slowly the pain was receding as if her body was repairing what was broken. Such regeneration was certainly not normal but Violet wasn’t going to complain. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Echo calmly watching her. As if this nightmare was entirely mundane to them and they didn’t care if she was killed here. There was only some mild curiosity in Echo’s expression.
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