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“Or so that we don’t realise gods are people.” He slipped his arms around me. “I don’t know about this, Kua.”
“About how the Sons of Seth work?”
“About taking you in. I know it makes sense, but there’s so much that could go wrong. What if they decide to drain your magic right away?”
“I guess we don’t. But it seems unlikely. They didn’t try to drain Ptah straight away when he was taken.”
“Which means they’ll probably move faster when I bring you in,” he pointed out.
I reached up and put my arms around his neck. “I trust you, Abrax. I know you won’t put me in any more danger than you have to.”
“That’s still too much. I don’t know what I’d do if you weren’t...”
My heart constricted at the words he wasn’t quite saying out loud. I hadn’t even realised I wanted to hear them.
Abrax cleared his throat, looking at me with an intense expression in his eyes that I didn’t have a name for. “I don’t want to live in a world where you’re not.”
“And I don’t want you to be trapped by them,” I responded. “I know the Sons of Seth are a problem, but that’s really not why I want to help.”
“Then why are you doing this?”
“Because of you.” My words came out as barely a whisper. I hadn’t even realised I was going to say them until they were out in the world. I’d never had anyone who impacted me the way he did.
“Kua...”
“It’s okay, we don’t need to say anything else,” I said, cutting him off before we got to anything dangerously close to a confession. “And you’re not going to convince me to change my mind.”
Abrax chuckled. “I’d never even try.”
“Because I’m stubborn?”
“Because you’re brave.”
I smoothed my hand over his chest. “Then we’re a good match.”
He raised an eyebrow. “You think I’m brave?”
“Iknowyou’re brave. You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t.”
Surprise crossed his face, and he lifted a hand to brush some hair out of my eyes.
“You’re the bravest person I’ve ever met.”
“Which is probably a lot of people,” he guessed.
I shrugged. “A fair few, though I can safely say that I’ve never counted. But I do know that you’re one of my favourites.”
“Why, Kua, I think you might be getting sentimental in your old age.”
“Watch who you’re calling old,” I murmured.
“What? No come back on the sentimental?”
“I don’t think I have a convincing one considering I said I’d let you take me into the headquarters of a cult that wants to kill me.” I looked up at him, trying not to let all of my vulnerability show on my face.
“You could be doing that for self-preservation.”
I shrugged. “I’d just move if that was the case. Spend a year or so in Purgatory, and then move on to another country. Losing the Sons of Seth is easy enough.”
