Pull me all the way down

He didn't want to open his eyes. The koi marked wolf's whole body ached and part of him wished that he had been consumed by the lava instead od beinf made to.retuen to the cruel waking world. His pale white fur was turned black and gray from soot marks and his new wounds were red and fleshy, pulsing with pain as if the skin was still held to flame. Hika didn't even have the strength to whimper as he suffered silently at the opening of the crypt. After all of that he had finally made it out, but at what cost?

He was alone now, Mortis had never come tomrescue him, pain was his only companion as he writhed upon the stone floor. That part of him that so desperately wanted to.give up slowly winning the war against his higher conscious. Which was only just hanging on to reality as his mind swam and raced to process what he had been throug, and what he would have to go through from now on. Maybe it was time to give up.