'Pain is nothing, I cannot die here… I cannot die! I cannot die!!!'
This thought continued ringing inside my head as I forced my mind and soul to learn about space faster than I had learned about magic in my entire life, and every point of it was paid for with a piece of my body, as nearly half my body no longer had any skin.
Not that I was complaining, as every brush with death here was filling me with instinctive knowledge of space that I had to transform into understanding or I would die, and I could not die here.
It had been a long time since I feared death, but now that fear had returned. Sure, I did not really fear the act of dying, just how I died. There was too much for me to do, and I didn't want to be torn away from those I love when I knew that I was the only one who could save them.
