A smear of soot stained her jaw, blood peppered her tanned skin, mixing with the faint freckles which covered her nose. Her full lips were drawn tight, not pliant and wanting as they’d been such a short time ago and her eyes, those grey eyes which refused to meet mine were so much darker than they’d been before. Like a gale had rolled through her and was only growing fiercer by the moment, no sign of letting up at all.
