She nodded. “Sure. I feel I’ll really feel extra like myself if I do.”

I appeared down at her ft. Naked. In my haste to depart the room, I hadn’t grabbed any of her garments.

“Not less than take my socks,” I advised her. The sneakers wouldn’t match, however a minimum of the thick socks would give her ft some safety. I sat and eliminated them, lifting her foot by the ankle to slip the primary sock on.

Gods, I missed the texture of her. As exhausting as I’d tried to struggle the ideas, there have been moments I wasn’t positive if I’d see her once more. Really feel her once more. Hear or scent her once more.

Throughout that point of separation, I’d thought nonstop of a world the place she didn’t exist. After I wasn’t pondering of her writhing in ache, after all.

My brows furrowed as I put the second sock on her different foot. One thing burned in my sinuses and I sniffed. Out of the blue, I felt Emilie’s hand cupping my face, and I leaned into it.

“What’s unsuitable?” she requested. So softly.

After I dropped her foot to the bottom, I held her round her waist, letting my brow relaxation towards her abdomen. My voice cracked as I spoke. “Don’t ever depart me once more.”

She ran her fingers via my hair over and over. “I don’t plan to.”

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Ladon

I yanked the torch from the wall. The tunnels have been pitch black and slick with contemporary water. They have been additionally eerily quiet. Not even the flutter of bat wings.

The mountain rumbled once more, and I checked out my touring companions. “It’s now or by no means, I suppose. Are you prepared?”

The harpy solely checked out Emilie, who straightened and gave me a curt nod. “That is our solely possibility.”

I held her hand as we took our first few steps into the tunnel. It took a minute for my eyes to regulate to the overwhelming darkness. My first few steps have been tentative, however then stones fell from the ceiling with one other increase within the distance. We would have liked to maneuver shortly.

The ground of the tunnel was uneven and rocky. Clearly, they hadn’t been utilized in years. They’d lengthy been forgotten by Reyna’s individuals, after being sealed by her ancestor.

We came across our first break up. Two equivalent paths lay earlier than us, with no indication as to which was the precise one to guide us out.

Emilie squeezed my hand. “I suppose we simply decide one?”

“What does your intestine let you know?”

“Proper feels…proper. However possibly it’s too proper. Possibly we should always go left.”

“You’re overthinking. You’re an air wielder, Emilie.”

“Nicely, sure. However I can’t use my magic proper now. You recognize that.”

“Positive. However which means feels proper. Does the air not name to you? Are you able to not really feel it in your bones? Which means does the air movement?”

“I…I’ve by no means tried that.”

She checked out me like I’d spoken a overseas language. However I’d all the time felt one with the earth. A kindred spirit that by no means left my aspect. An extension of me. I’d seen sufficient of her magical skills to consider she was able to that very same intuitive sense.

“Simply breathe. Shut your eyes and really feel.”

Emilie closed her eyes and stood tall, strikingly lovely and radiating power, even after being tormented and starved for weeks. Her pores and skin glowed within the firelight and it was exhausting to take my eyes off her.

I watched as she inhaled deeply after which exhaled slowly via her mouth. After just a few moments, she opened her eyes once more. “Proper.”

I smiled, waving my hand in that path. “Let’s keep on then.”

I had the sense that we have been transferring deeper into the mountain, however farther from the inhabited areas. The sounds of explosions softened till they have been nothing however a faint rumble.

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