The tattoos were scars themselves, so a healing incantation would remove them.”
“And my eye?”
Zander shook his head. When I looked around, all I saw were strangers and strange faces. Here, there were no footholds. Animal. “I’m so proud of you.” She said, her cheeks wet, “It took enormous courage to do what you did, and don’t for a second think you’re a coward for it.”
“That’s very easy for you to say, Elena.” I sniffled, wiping my nose with my sleeve, “You’ve washed your hands of this war, so you can point the finger at evil and call it what it is, but what of us with bloody hands? Maybe I should’ve flown higher to avoid it. I think I just grew a second set of ovaries.”
I laughed, then took one breath, and another. Eva ran her hands through her hair, then followed after them. I was smashed in the side by a great force. I flew a hundred feet up, palmed the glass, and blurted, “Elena, it wasn’t me. The service was over, and we were alone in our tower of the castle. An enemy that refuses to go for the throat is weak.”
“You don’t understand, do you?
