Chapter 14
Heavy, as if they’d been covered by a lead blanket, Mira’s limbs would not move. The drugs had worked to immobilize her, but Mira remained conscious, trapped within herself, experiencing the most unbearable hell she’d ever been through. Hours passed in an agony that she could neither vocalize nor fight against. She felt every drop of blood slowly leaving her parched body. Her veins burned. Deflating under the siphoning pull of the machines stealing her essence, her skin pulled taut against her bones. Each labored breath she took whistled past her parched lips. She couldn’t imagine there was any more blood left in her body, and still they found more to take.
Her only respite came the few times Lucian came to check on her. Sneaking in a few extra rations, he tipped them quickly
