Chapter 8 teaser: They’d bound his wrists in front of him with heavy wire, not so tightly as to cut off the circulation; but he soon rubbed the skin raw trying to slip loose, in the rare moments when he wasn’t watched too closely even for that. The wire was too heavy and too tight to manage the repeated bending that would have allowed him to break it. It was too rigid to manage a release without tools, and he was repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to get hold of anything that he might be able to use.
The frustration rankled and burned in his mind, disturbing his sleep with nightmares of blind alleys and impassable canyon walls, and blood spreading in rivulets across the dry earth of the high mountains. They were headed north, and the jungle was growing thicker and more tangled even as the air grew thicker, damper, hotter. In the heat and sweat of the harsh days, Mac didn’t recognise the onset of fever; with his mind already hazy, he wasn’t sure when the infection first developed in the raw abrasions in his wrists. After that, the haziness grew worse as the pain overtook him. Xavier swore at him when he finally noticed.
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Chapter One: Present ImperfectChapter Two: SubjunctiveChapter Three: Part Participle Chapter Four: Elliptical PhraseChapter Five: TransitiveChapter Six: Comma SpliceChapter Seven: Intransitive
