Chapter 37: You Burn The Porridge

"Up, up, lazy cur. Elric, I say, wake up."

I did not move because I knew the next thing that came after that voice, the demonic words, would already be assembling at the back of my tongue and the demon that would be waiting for me when I opened my eyes.

I had already used my staff once to escape the waking, and the loop had given me back to the same moment with the same voice and the same horror still living behind my teeth.

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