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What is it?I ask, glancing between them.
Graz has a workshop.Lo’zar’s says quickly, like he does when he’s excited.I asked him to see what he can find out about the stuff inside those worms. Maybe turn it into something that could help us.
I’m flabbergasted.How?
He shakes his head.I don’t know. But it worked once, didn’t it? Maybe whatever it is, it can help us again.He looks happy and relieved by this.If anyone can figure out what it’s capable of, it’s Graz.
I find that I don’t share his enthusiasm.
* * *
Lo’zar
Graz gave me use of his bed with a warning against fucking and ruining his nice blankets. Then he leaves us to experiment with the worms in his shop.
I wonder what my eccentric friend will learn.
After Rimi eats some bread and smoked meat I found in Graz’s house, I lead her into the bedroom. I’m ready to get the rest I’ve been dying for. Bundling her up tightly in my arms, I drape a thick pelt over both of us and wish that I could simply bring Rimi inside myself, where she would always feel at home and never long to be anywhere but with me.
My mate. The one I was born to find. Does she feel it, too? Or am I the only one who’s now bound by the rope of fate?
I think about telling her the truth. Maybe then she would stay here. But I have no way of knowing whether she’s tied to me as I am to her—if this feeling that she isminebelongs only to me.
No. She has to go home, and it would be cruel of me to saddle her with that knowledge.
Lo’zar?Rimi asks, her voice sleepy already. I guess she has a lot of rest to catch up on, too.
Yes?
I’m... I’m scared of leaving you.
All my fondness for her rises up to the top, surging over me like a wave and grinding me into the rocks. That’s the very last thing I want for her, to be afraid.You’ll be back where you belong,I tell her.
Right.She sighs against me, and places a small kiss at the base of my neck.Where I belong.
As badly as I want to take her on the floor, I don’t. Enjoying her warm body will not help me let her go. But I still hold her tight as we fall asleep.
* * *
The next morning before dawn, Graz is shaking me. I blink a few times and find my arm curled tightly around Rimi, who’s passed out so cold that there’s drool on her lip.
“Get up,” he says.
Slowly unwinding myself from my little human, I follow Graz into the main room. Suspicious, he arches an eyebrow.
“You didn’t fuck in my bed, right?”
I raise my hands. “Didn’t even get a bit of tit.”
“Good.” He glances through the door to the bedroom. “How did she know all that history stuff?”
“She’s not from here.” I let out a deep sigh. “She’s from the other continent. A place I’ve never heard of called Yusala.”
Graz raises his eyes to mine. “Yusala? That’s practically the opposite side of the world, friend.”
I suspected as much. It will be a difficult trip, but I will still get her there. “There must be a way.”
“Well... I have an idea. Based on what you told me—that you just have to touch it and wish for what you want—I tried it out. It did what you said, and the magic up and vanished on me after I asked it to make Izzy bigger.” He holds his arms wide apart. “Damn lizard became five feet long for a minute there.”
