Chapter 153

CLAUDIA. I'm frozen in my spot and all I can do is stare at the face in front of me. I know it's Kiernan. I remember his features enough to be sure about it. The only thing stopping me from being fully sure is the fact that it's like a puzzle, and there are significantly huge missing pieces on his face. He's... burned. That's the only way I can put it mildly. Patches of skin are missing from his face, and the rest is red and raw. It's like uncooked meat, oozing blood and pus in thin rivulets. One of his eyes has turned completely white as though his irises have been burned off. A chunk of his cheek is missing and now his teeth are exposed. There is not a single hair on his head now. Even his eyebrows and eyelashes are singed and gone. I know that Achilles managed to subdue him back in the palace when they were left to square it out in the office, but I didn't know that this is the means he believed were necessary. I can't believe Kiernan was being bad enough to deserve this. I won't