Chapter 18. 'I won't watch you die again.'
<< Silver Linings - Hendyamps Studios, Aimee Norris >>
The heat of the fire burned his skin and the screaming...the screaming...the screams.
"Put it out! PUT IT OUT! STOP IT! PLEASE!"
At first all he saw was shadow.
And then shadow and heat, and the bright red glow of fire.
"STOP! PUT IT OUT!"
He sat bolt upright, and gasped against the pain in his chest, like a jagged shard of glass wrenched and twisted inside of it.
His head fell into his hands as he breathed deeply against the raw ache and his mind whirred in confusion.
'What happened? I don't remember. Am I...which one? Wait...no, I know, I know...Noe Jin, I'm Noe, I'm Noe...'
Noe ran his hands through his hair and felt a strange texture, as though it were dry and matted.
He opened his eyes then, and looked down.
Red.
His hands, his arms, the large bed of pale, silvery sheets. All were covered in bright crimson blood.
