Chapter 452 – Halfmortal [2]
Meadow didn't respond. She couldn't.
Her body was slumped over, kneeling on the ground, her empty right eye socket spilling blood, the agony so overwhelming she thought she was going to lose consciousness.
But she didn't, and she knew this was hardly a mercy.
She tried desperately to stop herself from wailing, but the harder she tried, the more helpless she felt, and the very fact that she couldn't control her tears only made her cry even harder.
Meadow had never felt so weak and useless since that time with Faceless. And this time was far worse.
But no matter how much self-disgust she was beginning to feel at her weakness, it was that same self-disgust that gave her the determination to seek power.
And that, even if that power came from a dead worm on the edge of madness.
