Prologue

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I woke up choking on air. My eyes opened to a smoke filled room that made my eyes water and throat dry. I climbed out the bed in a blind panic searching for the way out, I cursed and cried in frustration when I couldn't immediately escape my room. What felt like an eternity later I found the door to my room and escaped to what I thought was freedom from death.

I didn't know then that escaping that smoke filled room was not a salvation, but the beginning of my nightmare.

Death would've been kinder.

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