s*x in death
He pulled me down into the dirt, shielding me with his own broken body.
"Run," he wheezed, blood coughing out of his mouth and staining the white silk of my torn gown. "Elowen... run to the back of the tombs... the well..."
"I won't leave you!" I finally found my voice, though it sounded like it was coming from the bottom of a grave. My hands clutched at his shoulders, feeling the heat radiating from his burned skin.
The Priest stepped closer, his heavy boots crushing the brittle bones of the dead that littered the floor. "Move aside, Duke. Let me give her the mercy of a quick death before she becomes the Queen of the Void. If she turns, the world ends."