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CHAPTER SIXTY NINE

I wake up with a scream on my lips only to find myself restrained by Aldon and Idril, their eyes wide with anger and shock.

“Balin?” They look towards their leader who is staring at me, an unidentifiable emotion in his eyes.

“Step back,” he says calmly.

And it’s when they release me that I feel the searing burn in my arm, the same place where the serpent had broken my skin.

Balin’s hand goes to my arm and my back arches in pain at the white-hot heat I feel flow through my arm into my whole body.

He restrains me and Aldon holds out a piece of cloth to my mouth, advising, “Bite on this.”

I do and I’m glad I do so because the scream that leaves my mouth is piercing.

Balin is pale as he sends more and more healing energy into it, and I can’t even think past the pain. At some point, I pass out, unable to handle anymore.

*

When I come to, I am laying on the ground, my body heavy and aching.

My eyes barely open and I groan.

“She’s awake,” Idril’s voice comes and then he is h
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