IRYN'S POV

I wake up with a start, and for a moment, I don’t know where I am... but then I do and my memory suddenly starts reeling inside me.

I remember the blackouts, and the strange blood pooling around my bare feet in that vision with Cormac stretching out his hand to me;

... And then… I remember Fenric’s swearing, "Fucking Elayne."

My breath catches at that.

Elayne?

How is she the cause of -------?

Wait,... I remember now; how could I forget?

How had my brain suddenly ...