Prologue
I was dying. I knew I was.
I coughed, blood dribbling down the side of my face, and gasped for breath as my throat was temporarily unclogged. I vowed I'd kill him for making me suffer, even if I had to come back from the dead to make him pay. I pictured the sweetness of the moment as my hands closed around his throat, as I drew all the life out of him, the beautiful sound of his ragged breathing. I'd kill them all. Slowly. Painfully.
I rolled over, straining against the chains. I wanted to give in, to just stop trying to breathe. But no chains could hold me. These ones would break eventually. I kicked out, and my whole body screamed at me. It had been starved for aeons. It had been at least a century since I had last fed, though it was hard to tell time down here in the dark.
I rolled over and was nearly strangled by my now-three-metre-long-hair. Not only was it long, but it was matted with blood and sweat.
A voice smashed through the silence, the sound reverberating. "You can give up, you know."
I winced, unaccustomed to sound louder than my own laboured breathing. Never, I thought, but it came out as a harsh wheeze.
"You're dying." The voice was right in my ear. It didn't sound like him, but in my delirious state of mind, it was difficult to tell.
"But we can save you." This was the voice of a female.
"How?" I managed to rasp.
"Forget."
What?
There was a light. It slashed through the darkness. It was a soft light, but harsh on my unaccustomed eyes. There was another light. And another.
Soon I was surrounded by glowing beings, all wearing white, all whispering the same word. Forget. It was beautiful, in a way.
One was crouching before me. He smiled when my eyes met his. "Forget, Dúath Dae, forget..."
The world blurred. I smiled as a white oblivion enveloped me.
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