Chapter 43
Searing heat.
An angry flaming sword.
Screams of pain and despair.
Blood.
Fury.
Too fast. It all happened too fast. Naughty Lainie. Haven’t you learnt anything from last time? Of course not, you chose to forget so of course you didn’t learn. You should have slowed things down. Now you were dead. Again. Careless girl. Bane and Noah will be furious with you. Aunt Lily will be very cross too. Dallmin will … no, maybe not. He was never cross. Maybe you should just stay with Dallmin.
‘Stay with me,’ a sad voice whispered.
It wasn’t Dallmin. It was someone else.
‘Please, Lainie, don’t leave me again!’
Whoever it was clearly had no idea what this scorching heat felt like or he wouldn’t be begging me to remain here. My shoulder was burning and screaming and the fire was spread
