His appearance was too off-putting for that, with sunken eyes and hollow cheeks that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a corpse. “Help me,” he said in a bloodless whisper, staring at Ren without blinking. “I can’t sleep anymore.” For an instant she was a child again, begging for comfort after a nightmare. Mama, I can’t sleep. Hush, Renyi. It’s all right. I will lay a thread around your bed to keep the zlyzen from you.
