Diana
I no longer felt the rope biting into my wrists. I couldn’t feel the ache in my arms or the pain of muscles gone stiff and numb. Something inside me snapped, and in that same instant, the world around me became unnaturally quiet. So quiet that I could hear my own heartbeat, pounding heavily in my ears. Then came a c***k, as though a dry branch had snapped somewhere close by.
I slowly lowered my gaze to my wrists and froze. The skin beneath the ropes was glowing, as though lightning were coursing beneath it. Heat rushed through my veins, climbing towards my throat, filling my chest and driving everything else away. The world receded, making room for something else — something ancient and merciless in its fury.
The sharp smell of singed rope filled my nostrils.
“What the…” Thomas b
