I opened my eyes to darkness. My body was pinned to the ground and slowly, I tried to move but pain vibrated up and down my arm. I pushed out with my uninjured hand, and I could hear debris fall onto one another. I shifted awkwardly onto my knees and stood up. The mansion was gone. It was completely torn down. The ceiling was gone, scattered around me in big chunks. There was a significant amount of dust in the air which I waved away from my face. I could not recognise anything, and the only thing standing was the front door, and that was only just hanging on by its hinges. The stairs had been entirely destroyed and I could not see the black marble floor.
“Rhea!?” I shouted out.
I climbed my way over to where I last saw Rhea. There were mounds of fallen debris around and I didn’t know where to start.
I yelled again. “Rhea!”
Carefully I got down onto my knees and began to clear away the mess. My forearms stung from the cuts the leeches had inflicted on me. It disgusted me that they fed on me and it seems like they enjoyed it but I didn’t have time to think about that, I got back to the amount of debris that lay before me. My heart soared into the air when I could see a hand. I quickly moved the fallen piles to see it was Sophia.
“Sophia, wake up!” She had a deep gash across her forehead it and blood were flowing freely.
Sophia’s eye slowly opened to shock. Her eyes were wide with fear. I was about to talk when something grabbed me tightly around the neck and pulled me up to my feet. Without warning, I felt a sharp pain in my neck and the whole world became dizzy and hazy. Something had hold of me while deeper and deeper I fell into darkness.
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