TAKEN BY THE DRAGON KING

Fifty Six

CHAPTER FIFTY SIX

Miranda

The whispers had started out slow and every time I knew, she'd just known that it was him, sinking into the very fragile creaks in my mind, slipping through my crumbling defenses, and warping the very core of my mind intensifying the hatred I felt, causing my skin to prickle and burn. Its whisper grew in my head to a stifling deafening crescendo.

"Serve!" The voice swells in my head, accompanied by a faint ringing. "You will serve!"

I brought my hands to my ears in an attempt to drown out the maddened frenzy with a peaceful spell and was met with the feel of blood dripping steadily from my ears, hitting me with a stunning realization, whatever this was, it was affecting me, killing me from the inside.

A hissing laugh follows.

"Y-you cannot escape," it said, voice sounding like metals scraping over each other. "You're mine, yield!"

The voice goes on in my head, laughing and teasing, burning its way through the recesses of my mind, twisting and turning my mem