Chapter 124

Arya

Shock reverberates in my body. I don't know what to say. For a second I struggle to understand what she means, then it occurs to me that she is talking about the weird pit that Levi and I found in the forest.

My heart starts to beat really fast. "Where will I start? What am I supposed to find?"

"Me. You will find me," she whispers. "Find the old shed up north. I'm just right here. I've been here for days. . . ."

I have so many questions to her, and even though I know she can get cut off anytime, I decide to chance it and ask in a rush, "Who is doing this to you? Why are they doing this? Have you seen the others? Do you know where they are?"

Daphne struggles to open her mouth, but she takes a harrowing breath and then her scene starts to vanish. She's saying something, but her words come out warbled somehow, like she's saying them from so far away and something is purposefully destroying her voice and her words as they travel.

Then, just like that, everything turns black and I hea