Chapter 19: "They themselves ordain’d their fall."

Rhys comes to with the distinct urge to keep his eyes shut, so that’s what he does at first. The specific shade of the inside of his eyelids is enough to alert him to the fact that it is very bright indeed around him, and with the way his head is throbbing, he senses that’s a migraine waiting to happen. So, he spends his first few minutes of consciousness internally assessing himself for damage. All he finds (aside from ...