BALQIS’S POV My eyes flung open at the ring of the bell against my ear. The lights came on, and the first person I saw was the doctor, who carried a small bell. “Seems like she’s coming back to life,” he said, then rang the bell again. I guess this is all it takes to bring me back from the realm of darkness that I’d suddenly wandered into. “Balqis?” I heard Mrs Kathy’s voice, and I slowly turned my head. She was also beside me, with Nirvana and a few of the other strippers. “Can you see me now?” I tried talking, but my voice had been buried away. The doctor leaned away, “She’s really a strong kid. No one had ever come back after being bitten by a Gamma revenant.” “Gamma revenant?” Mrs. Kathy asked in my stead, and the doctor nodded. “Revenants are shifters who died but somehow resu

