Chapter 109 - Staring-Admiring Rachel's Stretchings

The next morning, I woke up groggily, my body protesting every small movement as consciousness slowly returned. A deep exhaustion had settled into my bones—the kind that came from pushing enhanced physiology beyond its normal limits. My encounter with the electrical infected had taken more out of me than I'd initially realized. When that monstrous creature had hurled me against the car, I'd felt something fundamental shift in my spine, a grinding sensation that suggested serious damage. Without the Dullahan virus enhancement coursing through my system, I would have emerged from that impact as a paraplegic, if I'd emerged at all.