Chapter 32: Friday and Fang
Friday’s POV
What was happening to me? It felt like my body was on fire. I had taken my painkillers as prescribed. My broken foot was not any hotter than the rest of me. I was burning up like I had a roasting fever. I felt my own neck. It was no use. I could not differentiate between the heat of my hand and the heat of my neck. My lower abdomen hurt. It reminded me of the period cramps I used to get when I was twelve or thirteen only much more intense. I realised I had shut my eyes tightly. My eyelids fluttered open. Thaddeus and Maze were both very still like statues, beautifully carved from stone. The only signs of life were their slow panting as their chests rose and fell, their tense eyes and the beads of perspiration forming on their temples and foreheads
