Chapter Eight
“I can feel the distance between us growing. A darkness, bleak and empty, is beginning to fill me as I struggle with the pain that is spreading from the inside out. If I’m not careful, it will debilitate me until I can only dream of finding her. That’s the double sided coin of our mated pairs. We need each other and are essential to the other. It is one of our greatest strengths but it is also one of our biggest weaknesses.” ~Cush
Cush tried not to break his teeth under the pressure of his clenched jaw as he sat in the cramped plane. He wanted to use the portals, but Trik had been against it, and though it was strange to be taking orders from a new king, he was the king, and it had been engrained in him a long time ago not to defy the king.
The humans around him shifted re
