Chapter 81- Pick the trace

Chapter 81- Pick the trace

The darkness within can be just

as terrifying

as the darkness without.

~Unknown

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The impact was vicious and so was the sickening bone crack that came after. Medusa hissed, breathing the fire searing her lungs and the numbness somewhere behind.

This was physical pain, rejecting the sense of her spine as she lay breathless against the cold ground. The elucidation above soared upon her strait, visible with a red-rimmed blemish that formed an ugly scar on her skin, indicating the coercion of whatever grasped her.

As if that wasn't enough, the leverage anchored against her neck again, choking her breath at resistance, and hurled her weight into the air, lifting her body off the ground in a matter of a split second.