Chapter 24

Finally finished Chapter 23.  I am now going to be working on Chapter 24 next.  I think I already have the opening for it.  So I'll share some of it with you.

      Nadja's body convulsed as coughing wracked her sickly body.  Never before had she dwelt so long trapped in the stale aired darkness.  Her only light the few instances her meals had been brought to her cell.  How she longed to once again feel a breeze caress through her hair, and warm sunlight dance across her skin could not easily put into words.  

     Nadja had not heard, nor seen the door open as abruptly a golden brilliance engulfed her cell.  She barely managed to use her hands to shield her eyes against the light, for her chains made such movements hard and painful as the manacles cut into her wrists.

    A voice she had never heard before spoke onto her from within this golden brilliance, "Too long have you dwelt in the Darkness....."

and that's all I got for now.