We're now at the fifteenth chapter of In the End, meaning that there are only five chapters left until the end. As I always do whenever I am about to finish posting an epic, I feel a strong sense of excitement and dread. Excited that I will have more time to focus on other things when this is done; dread that I will no longer have that dependable routine I've developed over the past fifteen weeks of a chapter a week.

In any case, here's an excerpt from this week's chapter:

Kiriah was absolutely certain she was going to die. She could feel the poison in her system eating her from the inside, burning through her veins, turning her organs inside out. It was like being ripped in half, except she was aware of it the entire time. She knew it was only a matter of time before her life finally ended, yet she stubbornly held on anyway.

 

I . . . must . . . live, Kiriah thought.

 

Of course, that was much easier said than done. Her limbs had locked up and her chest was on fire. She could barely think, much less concentrate on her will to live. It would be easier, far easier, to let the darkness claim her.

 

But she knew she couldn't. She had a world to save. Her world. Her friends. She still had so much to live for, so much to do. She had to keep going. The only question was, how?

Read the rest of Chapter XV here.

-TNTOS-