nora
I'm so sorry!
ed out of me in
ot a second ago, turned instantly, shockingly cold. A deep, unnatural chill radiated from him,
e intense than before. It was a searing, feverish
moonlight from the opening high above cut
s ancient sub-structures. And I had fallen directly onto a man lying on a stone slab. He was magnificent, even in his torment. Broad-shouldered, with
ent, delicate, icy blue fractals of frost would bloom across his chest, the next they wou
rkness, were clenched shut. His teeth were
ehind in the human world, surged to the forefront. The
myself, the clinical term a strange comfort in this bizar
ocked onto me, filled with the raw violence of a cornered an
rough him. He arched his back, a guttural roar of pure pain tearing from h
tever was happening to
oved. My mind had only one di
dden beneath my dress. My emergency kit. Thank the Goddess, it was still there. I'
ar shape of a pre-filled syringe. A high-
sional. "I don't know what's wrong with you,
soner. He watched me, this strange silver-haired woman who had literally fallen from the sky, his gaze sharp and assessing even through the haze of his suffering. I saw a f
ngers expertly finding the large vein in his forearm. The
primal reaction to an unknown con
ension in his muscles eased. The fiery and icy patterns on his sk
for air. He was panting, sweat pouring down his temples. His amber eyes, now clear of the worst
eart was pounding. I knelt beside him, my medical mind taking
t's not poison, not in the conventional sense. The presentation
hung in
was talking about. Who was this
d it with a small vial of saline from my pouch, and began to gently wipe the sweat from his bro
raging tempest, grow quiet. It was watching me, not with aggression, but with a strange, possess
i
ps and muffled shouts from
omewhere! Spread out and fin
draining from my face.
n, syrupy and concerned. "I'm sure there's an explanation. Eleonora w
pa
e eastern maintenance tunnels?" Julian's voice
fit of the doubt. She's been through so much. The rejection at the c
wide with false sympathy, planting the seeds of
footsteps
ise, "Julian, look. The ventilation grate-it's be
tered, but I heard him stop. Heard his boo
ssed it. "There's someone else down there w
t stone, a section of the far wall swu
above, a blinding gold that cut through the
ce was a mask of cold fury, his jaw tight. Beside him, Karmen's lips parted in a perf
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