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Maybe a few minutes?
Maybe a few hours?
When the burning finally faded, I was still on my knees. Every inch of me was shaking.
I needed food.
And water.
And sleep.
Unfortunately, the low growl I heard off to my left (one that definitely hadn’t come from the swearing sabertooth who hadn’t left my side while I was suffering) told me that it was time to get up and face the music.
I cracked my eyes open, wincing when a sharp pain in my head throbbed in retaliation to the movement.
The pain was much worse than Vevol had warned me it would be.
My eyes moved slowly over the army of monsters in front of us. They were massive—twice as big as any earthly bears, as well as stronger and angrier-looking.
Their fur came in the same colors as the trees; the white, the black, the blue, and the green.
But their eyes were silver, and glowing.
And they were all focused on me.
When Teris stood slowly, I felt the motion at my side more than saw it.
“Wait,” I whispered to him, fear swelling within me when I realized he thought the creatures were a threat to him.
They weren’t.
They were Vevol’s final gift to her fae.
And they weremine.
“Stay back, Nai.” His voice was low, and hard.
To anyone who didn’t know Teris, it would’ve sounded angry.
I knew he wasn’t pissed, though. At least not entirely. Hewasundoubtedly furious with me.
But the man was worried, too.
My monsters only picked up on that anger, though.
And I wasn’t strong enough to control them, yet. Not the way I would need to be.
“Stop.” I tried to grab Teris’s hand and pull him back to me, but he side-stepped me.
The motion was enough to set off the creatures.
I needed to come up with a name for them, but that was the least of my concerns at the moment, because they were all going for Teris’s throat.
Vevol’s magic had made him bigger, and stronger. In his sabertooth form, he could definitely take on the creatures. And with his fighting skills, he could probably handle a few of them.
But not an entire klynna-prison cave full of them.
I lunged to my feet, ignoring the burning in my body and focusing on the panic in my chest as I shoved myself between Teris and the monsters.
