It grabbed her by the throat and snapped her neck with a slow, excruciating twist.
Something inside Kaiden shattered.
Wrath tore free.
It wasn't just a surge… It was an eruption. A cataclysm.
Rage flooded his system so violently that his vision went red, then darker, blood vessels rupturing as his eyes bled. His burned lungs dragged in air that tore them apart. His teeth cracked under the force of his snarl.
The demon turned back to him, satisfied.
Kaiden's charred lips peeled back.
"I'll… kill you…" He rasped, voice ruined, every word dragged through scorched flesh. "I'll butcher you. I'll torture you until you're nothing but an empty husk."
The demon laughed.
Then it killed him.
…
Kaiden woke screaming.
Air slammed into his lungs as he jolted upright, hands clawing at nothing, heart hammering so violently it hurt. His body was whole again. Unburned. Unbroken.
But the memory was still there.
The heat. The helplessness.
The screams.
The battlefield reset.
