How could she still be fighting, Shaun wondered as Cian’s tears still threw him. The image of her being impaled through her back by Akuji’s demonic fury still haunted him in terrifying detail. Mara didn’t deserve that. Not even if she hated him. He would have never asked for her demise.
He was paralyzed while he watched her fall. It was almost like Akuji stole his life from him in that vile jab. There were no words, no feelings other than mind numbing death that could embrace him thereafter.
Cian’s promise that Mara was still fighting for her life was news to him. As much as he wanted to shake himself out of his stupor, he couldn’t. It was all too much. Cian’s world beneath Aluna’s sea tumbled down around him. The deep blue ocean raged against the failing fortress, pouring its contents
