ALMOND Struggling between life and death was the hardest thing anyone could describe. For some minutes, I felt alive, and I could hear my heart beating, but then, in the following minutes, I was thrown into an abyss of pain where only torments awaited me. I could literally feel my life sipped out of me; the pain of being sliced into different parts and given the chance to heal again before repeating the process was what I was experiencing over and over again. The curse was taking a toll on me as I could feel my body aging quickly and then rotting away before gradually turning into dust. The gamble I had bet on was failing, and the realization that I was indeed going to die struck me harder. I couldn't believe that I was literally going to fade away and I won't be able to see my precio