Her Worst Nightmare
For a moment, I felt nothing – like I was suspended in motion, frozen – and I thought, I bet I look like she did, tendons straining against flesh, as if the water was suddenly going to burst through my skin, my body unable to house any more of it .
And then, I heard it, that same heartbeat I'd heard after I'd drank the blood of the First, an incessant drumbeat, hammering, pulsating, not just inside of me, but through me , like it was a part of me now. It beat loud and hard at first, and it hurt – god, it fucking hurt– as it drummed faster. Still, the water surged, the flow growing in strength as each second passed, the noise of the torrent filling my ears until it was all I could hear, and t
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