IslaThere is a pain that radiates from the mark on my arm. It is worse than anything that I have ever felt before. My whole body burns with excruciating pain that goes so deep that it seems to touch my soul.I curl in on myself, begging the gods to take the pain away. The salve does nothing. Even the larger piece of cold root does nothing. I found a bottle of some type of alcohol in the room, but even that does not touch it. Nothing is cutting through the pain.The moon is high in the sky, starting the descent to the other side of the world when the pain finally starts to lessen. My whole body is still tender, and it hurts to move. Vaguely as I become aware of the world around me once again, I feel the tears on my cheeks.Honestly, I do not know the last time that I cried. Maybe when grandmother died. Even then, it was not much. There had been shock, and then fear. Before the flames of the pyre had died down, I was being told that I had to leave.“You can’t stay here,” Lord Donovan h
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