Crystal's POV:

By the time I returned to my residence, my emotions were completely out of control.

I had no idea how things had come to this. If everything had been premeditated, that meant that I had become a willing prey.

My thoughts were clouded by an indescribable pain. It felt as though thousands of ants were crawling all over my skin, gnawing at my flesh.

I stumbled into my room and burrowed under the covers of my bed.

I was shivering. I felt hot and cold at the same time.

My head was pounding, too, and all I could think about was the pain. Images of death flashed in my vision-Leonard's, Maya's, Rufus'.

I saw Rufus with a cut on his throat, caused by the black thorn that adorned his body...

And now... Now, it was Beryl's turn, wasn't it?

Noreen had once told me that I would only bring misfortune to the people around me.

I loved and the people who loved me

best to fight against

against hope that this was all just a

course, it was all wishful

before the storm. What was fated was bound

almost choking me to death. It seemed like the ants from hell had already penetrated my skin, and were now crawling around my

bathroom and turned the cold water on. I couldn't even wait until it filled the bathtub, I just submerged my head into the water, praying that it would numb the pain, if only a little. Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters

could make out how red my cheeks were, and how my neck and

remained hazy. The feeling was not that different from when

told me that I wasn't drunk. If that wasn't it, then something else was wrong with my body. My mind was in a daze, and I was itching and burning all

seemed to get worse. I scratched and scratched, until blood bloomed in

someone stormed

room. I whipped around

at Rufus. Tears were streaming down my face as held up my bleeding arm. "Thetch won't stop,"

I

other hand, intending to scratch my arm again, but Rufus caught it in

and kissed my hair. "Calm down, Crystal," he rasped. "It's okay. Don't think about the itch. Everything

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