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“Shh. Clear your mind. Don’t think about anything else. It’s just you and me here.”
I nodded and took a deep breath. “Okay.”
I pushed my magic out again, with more force this time. It took several moments and sweat started to bead above my brow from the effort, but then, the darkness, the Glaev, began to dissipate and what looked like white smoke rose into the air.
The back of my eyes pricked with tears and I gasped quietly, continuing to push out more and more of my magic, causing the land to glow. I was healing the land, ridding it of the plague that had assaulted the world. Once a small area was filled with lush green grass, I stopped.
All this time, Odarum had had the ability to fix all of this. But because of their interference restrictions, he couldn’t. But I could.
“It worked,” I whispered under my breath.
“My powerful mate.” I could hear the smile in his voice.
He pulled his shadows back to him and gasps sounded from the surrounding people as they took in the sight of the healed Glaev with a slight glow around the edges, like it was still slowly growing and working on its own.
I wasn’t waiting another moment to fix more. I pushed forward and out, spreading the tendrils of energy as far and wide as I could.
Hours passed. And I pushed and pushed more and more of my energy to restore the land around the city. The buildings didn’t miraculously reappear, but they could be rebuilt. I had made it halfway around the city before I nearly collapsed from the exertion.
Shouts and clapping and hooting erupted from all around from the people. The Glaev was gone. Not all of it, but where I had touched it with my energy.
My head felt hazy, and my body was weak. It didn’t help that I had just suffered poisoning only days earlier. Ryker noticed myfatigued state. He came up next to me and placed a supportive arm around my waist.
“Let’s all part ways here and get some rest so that we can leave at dusk,” Ryker said. “Kya and I will go to the cave and try to get some sleep. I have a feeling that we have a very long night ahead of us, and we’ll need our strength to go against Daegel.”
“Why do we have to leave at dusk? Why don’t we just leave now?” Hakoa asked, and I couldn’t help but notice that he leaned slightly closer to Malina.
“Because we need to be able to follow the River constellation for a more accurate location. The Rip is huge, and it does make sense that he would be near there, but it’s just unclear as to where exactly. The constellation will give us a better guide.”
“Because of your Trial riddle?” he asked skeptically.
“Yes,” Ryker and I said in unison.
“You must have a lot of faith in the Gods,” Hakoa huffed.
I shrugged with a small smile. “I have to.”
We all went our separate ways then. Ryker flew us back to the cave, I was too exhausted to even summon my wings, let alone fly. Once we were in the cave, he took my hand and led me to the kitchen alcove.
“Let me get you something to eat,” Ryker said, guiding me to sit at the small table near the corner.
As if on cue, my stomach gurgled. “I am pretty hungry.”
He chuckled as he took out a few things from the cabinets and lit a fire with a pot of water over it. “Do you like stew?”
“Who doesn’t?”
“Stew it is, then,” he said with a wink, then turned back around to the ingredients on the counter in front of him.
I watched him prepping the food, cutting up vegetables and dumping them into the pot of boiling water. All the while, I could hear his thoughts and I’m not sure he even realized it.
He can’t have her.
I can’t stop her, I won’t.
Maybe I should just leave while she’s asleep and take care of him myself.
No. I couldn’t do that to her. She would resent me for it. I care about her brother and I want to stop the dark wielder, but I care so much more for her.
