Chapter 77 – The Decision No One Can Make For Her
POV: Kael
Pain was a strange thing.
When it was bad enough, it stopped feeling sharp and became something else entirely. A weight. A presence. Something that settled into your bones and stayed there until you couldn't remember what it felt like to exist without it.
I was aware of it long before I opened my eyes.
The pain.
The weakness.
The fact that every breath felt like my body was borrowing time it didn't actually have.
Voices drifted around me, fading in and out of focus. Sometimes I recognized them. Sometimes I didn't. The healers were speaking. Someone was giving orders. Footsteps crossed the room.
None of it stayed with me.
Only one thing did.
Liora.
Even before I saw her, I knew she was here.
