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“That bear is the least dangerous thing out here. You should consider yourself lucky that’s the only thing that found you before I got here.”
“Before you got here?” My eyes narrow. “You mean when I took care of the thing myself?”
“That bear would have taken you down long before it succumbed to your poison.”
“I guess we’ll never know,” I snap, irritated that he might be right.
“You and I agree on that at least. Let’s go.”
“No, thanks,” I tell him. “Kendall and I are going to finish our outing.”
“Um, actually,” Kendall says. “Just curious but what else is out there, exactly? And how is it worse than the bear?”
I turn to see her standing several yards back, her hand held up at an awkward angle in front of her. It takes me a moment to realize she’s blocking Legion’s body from her view. It might have been funny if I wasn’t so furious.
“Demons, hellhounds, vampires,” Legion tells her. “And those are just my closest neighbors.”
“Are you saying everything in this world is going to try to kill us?”
“Today? Yes.”
“I don’t believe you.”
But one look at Kendall and I can see she does. “He lives here, Tor. He would know what the dangers are.”
“He’s just trying to scare us so we won’t leave that prison he calls a castle. I refuse to be intimidated by his fear tactics. We can?—”
Pain slices through me, radiating out from the center of my chest. I suck in a sharp breath, doubling over. Legion is there instantly.
“What’s wrong?”
“I don’t know,” I manage through clenched teeth.
Kendall hurries over, but I wave her back. “Don’t. I need my gloves.”
“Where?” Kendall asks.
“Near the road.”
“I’m on it.” She hurries off.
Legion hasn’t moved away. I take a step back, needing distance, but he only follows.
“Back up before I accidentally kill you,” I hiss through another bout of stabbing pain.
“Tell me what’s happening to you,” he says in a strained voice.
I glance up at him, but the expression he wears is unreadable. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I pissed him off. But I’ve seen him angry, and this isn’t it.
“I don’t know. I…” Another wave of pain comes, and my knees buckle under the weight of it.
Legion leans in and sniffs. “You smell like blood.”
I glance at my left side where the bear’s claws got me. “It’s not that deep. I’ll heal.”
He growls.
“That’s not what hurts,” I add.
