C36 Chapter 36
Smoke surrounded her. Black, suffocating clouds of it. She breathed it in, and it invaded her lungs, filling her body, her soul, with darkness. Evil crawled through her veins and burrowed under her skin.
Beska gasped awake, sitting upright in her bed. Sweat soaked her nightclothes and her thin blanket lay in twisted knots at her feet.
She panted, unable to draw in enough breath