Chapyer 43: Unmasking By Bits

"Are you out of your mind?!" She screams at me but I can barely hear her over the loud ringing in my ears.

Images flashes across my vision and my head bangs with an impending headache. My eyelashes flutters and I stagger backwards with my hand still on my cheeks and struggling to keep my eyes open.

I part my lips to speak but the glass falls from my grasp and shatters, disrupting the eerie silence in the hall.

My hands extends out to hold on to something, still moving backwards and another roll of gasps fills the air as I collide with a walking waiter from behind and knock over the tray, cold drinks seeping into my dress and back as it spills on me.

"Eirlys!" Mr Handsome calls out but I can't see him through my blurry vision.

A hand grabs mine from the side and I swat it away, moving farther from it. I raise myself up a bit and cover my head with my other hand and hiss.