* William's POV *
Do you want to know what the worst kind of pain is? It's not the kind that comes so swiftly that you're completely thrown off balance and you know you can never recover from it. It's not even the one where the pain is swift but blinding, and you'd only feel the after-effects once it passed.
No; the worst kind of pain was the one that lingered, that numbing sensation which you could just tell was not going to leave any time soon. I savoured that kind of pain, relished it even. In a world where I was so lost in my own darkness that I rarely felt anything at all, this kind of pain was the one I enjoyed the most. Because rather that being swift and precise, it persisted for what felt like an eternity, and it tore through me like a hot knife.
This was the kind of pain I f
