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Literature

Stealing Thunder - Finale

I flitted in and out of dreams filled with fire and pain, but I was never really awake. Mostly, I was crying, and they told me afterward that I was screaming almost perpetually as well, which explained why my throat was so raw when I finally did wake up. Besides the smoke, I mean. They told me, too, that when I wasn’t screaming, I was whispering Rafe’s name over and over and over, and that when I did, the tears fell harder than ever. But I didn’t remember any of that at all. Only the fire and the excruciating agony. I would be haunted by fire for the rest of my life. * “How am I even alive?” I moaned several we