Lyne laid there half-dead and still gasping for breath. She clamped about, hitting chairs and tables, trying to ask for help but it was either the cooks had been chased outside or they were just too terrified to help someone the terror queen had punished.

She held her neck and soon, her body became limpid. Except for the little breath she got from tiny gasps that almost looked like hiccups, Lyne was near death.

She wondered where Zeidan was and wondered if anyone really cared about her. She closed her eyes and she wondered if this was it.

The end.

She would just disappear from the face of the earth...