Death of Day_A Girl of Glass Story by Megan O'Russell & Ink Worlds Press

Author:Megan O'Russell & Ink Worlds Press [O'Russell, Megan & Press, Ink Worlds]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07VHYMDJS
Publisher: Ink Worlds Press
Published: 2019-07-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Nothing existed beyond the edges of the ice. No air. No sound. No pain.

Only cold to keep her trapped for all eternity.

Emanuel had promised to heal her, to fix her lungs. Raina hadn’t thought to ask if the cure was spending the rest of her days frozen.

This couldn’t be death, not as she had spent so many years expecting the end to come. True death would be more peaceful.

A perfect nothing.

Because, as the ice ebbed away from the edges of her flesh, Raina found something beyond the nothing.

Soft sheets tucked tightly around her. The hum of tools working not far away. Voices laughing at a joke she hadn’t heard.

Raina discovered she could move as she opened her eyes.

A single light bulb hung from the stone ceiling over her bed. The bulb swayed slightly.

Raina let her eyes fall shut, feeling for movement in the bed.

The room didn’t seem to be shaking or rocking, but as she opened her eyes again, the bulb still swayed.

“Should have hired a better builder.” Raina’s voice came out as a rough croak.

She listened for a long moment, waiting for someone to come running now that she’d made a sound.

The noise coming through the door didn’t change.

“Great.” She pulled her arm up and over the covers.

Her hand seemed to have gained a hundred pounds in weight while the ice encased her. She pulled her other arm free from the sheets, holding her hand up where she could see it.

Her fingers looked the same. The ice hadn’t left any scars.

She kicked the covers aside, gritting her teeth against the unbearable weight of her legs.

They’d left her in her clothes from the club. Even her black boots remained firmly on her feet.

“How courteous.” Her voice crackled again.

Raina took a deep breath, listening for the rattle in her lungs. The air moved freely in and out through her nose.

She took another breath, sucking in as much as her lungs would hold. Seconds ticked past as she waited to exhale. Her lungs didn’t tremble in revolt. She let the air out slowly, expecting to hack out blood any second.

Nothing.

She took another breath just to be sure.

“Wow.”

The word crackled again, not from her lungs but her throat.

The moment she thought of her throat, it burned with thirst.

She pushed herself to her feet, lurching across the dirt-covered stone floor to the door. She tried to turn the handle, but the knob wouldn’t move.

“Hey.” She pounded on the door. “I’m awake, let me out.”

The voices on the other side of the door stopped talking.

“Let me out! I’m thirsty.” She pounded on the wood. A dull thump answered her fists.

They’ve locked me in where I can’t break out.

“Tell Emanuel I’m awake,” Raina said. “Tell him if he leaves me trapped in here there is going to be hell to pay when I get out.”

Voices spoke on the other side of the door, their words too soft for Raina to hear.

A man gave a low, rumbling laugh.

“Let me out!” Raina pounded on the door.

The outside voices drifted away.

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