Role

Chapter 14

The burning in your core seems to explode through your body striking the tips
of your limbs and bouncing back arching every nerve, standing every hair on
end. The heat is intense, and scorching, but you do not feel threatened. The
sting feels good, your flesh is not burning away, just your weaknesses, your
past, your failures, and everything is burning off like the molted skin of a
snake, shedding into ash in a wake behind you. Suddenly you feel weightless,
torn off your knees and into the air. There is a tight hold about your
shoulders, the fires rage on inside you. All at once it stops, and a sharp
pain spreads across your jaw. Everything is still black, but something is
different. Muddled sounds pour into your ears, like a levy breaking an
onslaught of noises pouring in and rattling around in your empty skull.
"SLAP!" another rocket of pain erupts on the opposite side of your face, your
eyes shoot open and wide with the force of it. The claws of the sun dig into
your pupils searing your optic nerves and forcing your tear ducts to unload
gushes of sweet release. Blinking away from the blinding light tears flowing
you turn your head suddenly as a flow of salty icewater bellows from your
nose and mouth. Coughing and hacking you feel a hand on your shoulder giving
you a rough pat. "Thats it lad, thats it... get it out now." A plethora of
mixed faces, races from all over Thera, and of every social status crowd in.
The city guard eases you up to a sitting position, turns back to the people
of Galadon, and with a hand up ensures them. "Move along, move along, theres
nothing to see here now, go on, keep it moving." You come to the strange
realization that you are in fact alive. How did you get here and, but your
thoughts are cut short when you see your slashed open and broken leg sprawled
out in front of you. You pull your shirt open and you know from the look on
the city guards face that you might not have escaped death just yet. "Hang on
fella, we are guna get you patched up." He says as he lifts you up and
carries you towards the nearest temple...