Book Of The Dead - Chapter B5: The Limits

... as he was trying to study through bleary eyes. One moment, he was trying to read the scroll propped open on the table before him through blurred, red, raw eyes, the next, he was awoken by a loud bang.

He was so fatigued, it took him a while to realise the sound had been made by his head slamming into the table. As tough as he was, he barely felt the impact, yet it was enough to startle him back to some sort of wakefulness.

“I think I’m too tired to keep reading,” he mumbled to hi ...