Throughout the next few days, Minerva did not awaken or even move. Darkness was all she saw, and she was powerless to over come it. Often in her dreams she revisited the nightmare of that night, feeling the pain all over again, the loneliness, the wish for death. During her dreams her body would begin to shut down and she gave up, coming close to death over and over. It was only when Albus rescued her in her dreams that she came back.
Four days after Minerva's rescue, the dream came to her again. The wizards raped her, her arm throbbed, and she cried out for Albus. When he finally came, he did not rescue her; he could not. She had already died.
Minerva felt her life leaving her. She sank deeper into the abyss, into silence.
Suddenly the silence was rent by anguished shouts. She heard a voice calling her name.