Literature
Stealing Thunder - Finale
I flitted in and out of dreams filled with fire and pain, but I was never really awake. Mostly, I was crying, and they told me afterward that I was screaming almost perpetually as well, which explained why my throat was so raw when I finally did wake up. Besides the smoke, I mean.
They told me, too, that when I wasnt screaming, I was whispering Rafes name over and over and over, and that when I did, the tears fell harder than ever.
But I didnt remember any of that at all. Only the fire and the excruciating agony.
I would be haunted by fire for the rest of my life.
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How am I even alive? I moaned several we