This is what drives me to go on

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She was in pain, an unbearable pain that kept growing. What started as a subtle twinge had become something that consumed her from the inside. 

She didn't know what was happening to her body, and the time to ask for help had passed. Now she was suffering alone, in an agony that was slowly spreading through every corner of her being. 

Every breath became an act of bravery; the burning emanating from her core spread inexorably, enveloping her arms and legs in an unrelenting fire. 

The beating of his heart, which once set the rhythm of life, had become a steady drum of pain, repeating itself relentlessly in a cadence that seemed to drag on beyond imagining. 

Instants blended together in an uninterrupted succession of sensations, making it difficult to discern where one began and another ended.