“How long has she been in there?”
He knew that he didn’t need to specify who she was—just as well as I knew who it was that he was referring to. After all, she was right in front of us. So close, and yet she was lightyears away—if she hadn’t already died.
“Two days…”
I let my voice trail off, half heartedly anticipating his reaction. I wasn’t even mildly surprised when my words were met with silence. It was obvious that he had been blown away by the information, by the fact that she had been beneath the ice layer for longer than a day.
“We need to break her out of there.”
“We can’t do that. You should know by now that this ritual is sacred. She needs to stay in there until the Goddess decides that she may leave.”
