Tom promised, in a painful whisper.

He lowered his voice to an almost painful whisper.

Her voice was a raspy, painful whisper.

"Funny hat," she echoed in her painful whisper.

"It's the shield giving out," she told him in a painful whisper.

Kahlan asked in a painful whisper.

A tear rolled down Kahlan's cheek, and her voice came in the same painful whisper.

"No," Richard said in a painful whisper.

His voice was a grating, painful whisper.

"Ho-rye-un," the youngster said, in the same painful whisper that I had heard so often from Ahriman.