SERAPHINA’S POV

I'm stuck in a room surrounded by fire, pounding at the door while the very last bits of oxygen are being consumed by the flames.

The walls around me have corroded to ash and crumble to the floor, but I don't stop pounding and screaming for help until it finally bursts open.

I breathe a sigh of relief, only briefly, before I realize standing right in front of me is a burning corpse; charred completely, with a disfigured body and towering over me, tears of bright viscous ...