Chapter 118

• "Please...please help...help me..."
• Drenched in the chilling downpour, my clothes clung to me, and feeble fingers reached out as I staggered along the empty sidewalk. Each passing moment blurred my sight, and I was acutely aware that the fault lay not in the raindrops streaming from my eyelids.
• His once white shirt, clinging to my skin, was now a brownish-pink hue, the red-tainted water dripping from the hem and soiling the flooded ground I dragged my bare feet on.