C26 TWENTY SIX

In Our Wills

DRAKE

authority of this lies in our wills.

— William Shakespeare, Othello

I SHOULD HAVE fed before I got captured.

That's what I kept thinking.

As if I knew this would happen.

As if I could have stopped it.

As if it would have even helped.

The thirst was drying me out, and it hadn't been that long. Not nearly long enough to feel like this already. I suspected magic