I strove to call out to her.

By me slipped the body of Drake; lay flaming at my feet upon the narrow ledge.
There was a roaring within my head--louder, far louder, than that which beat against my ears.

Something was drawing me forth; drawing me out of my body into unimaginable depths of blackness.

Something was hurling me out into those cold depths of space that alone could darken the fires that encircled me--the fires of which I was becoming a part.
I felt myself leap outward--outward and outward--into--oblivion..