"Do...n't... leave... me... alone... wake... up... alone..."

She shivered again, her body convulsing as another sore opened on her already scarred face. All around her eyes, the hooks from the mask had shredded the skin as she tugged it away. And now, another sore, showing blackened and dull rust coloured flesh, opened up on her forehead.

"Please..." She moved towards Charles again, almost collapsing back into her vomit as she did.

"I'm... sca...ared."