DRAVEN'S POV.
Today marked the sixth day since I'd been afflicted with this poison from the pit hell. If I thought I was in pain before, now it was pure agony. There was nothing I could do to stop it as it tore at me, shredding my body from the inside out. Every beat of my heart felt like a countdown to the inevitable, my end. My breath rasped in my throat as I leaned against the shower wall, cold water cascading over me. It didn’t help. Nothing did. Five showers today and counting. Each one gave a fleeting relief before the fever clawed its way back, each time worse than the last.
My mind was in a haze of agony and desperation as I felt myself burning up from the inside out despite standing under the cold shower. Nessa, the witch I relied on for help and answers, was gone, missing and n
