Chapter 43
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 spreading like acid.
‘You told me you wanted to stay with me, don’t you remember? It’s what you want!’
Get out of town. As if I would ever want to feel this much pain. Yet even as I thought it, I realised that the sting was dissolving away like sherbet on my tongue. Blistering heat remained, causing me to cry out in dismay, and then that dissolved too. The sudden absence of feeling shocked me into lucidity.