Page 118 of Nightmare Rising

I crawled on bare knees and hands, cutting myself but I crawled. On the way I found something soft under my palm and I paused, wiping away tears and sweat from my eyes.

It was Val’s teddy bear.

Just when I thought there was nothing more left to feel, a pain so bright and searing ripped through my chest. Everything was ruined, destroyed.

Was Val completely gone? Was the King all that was left? Judging by what he’d done to me, the answer was yes.

Never give up hope.

I wouldn’t. Couldn’t.

Sirens. The police were coming.

Then I spotted the glint of the metal ball a yard away, perched within a pool of clotted blood. Naked and shivering, finding it difficult to focus, I wrapped my arms about myself.

The Nightmare King was free of the device that’d held him back since 1862.

Val’s words came to me:There is always a way.

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