Semua Bab Bound To The Cursed Lycan : Bab 121 - Bab 125

THEODOSA.I woke up slowly.My head was pounding before I was even fully awake, a dull heavy throb that sat behind my eyes and made blinking feel like effort. My mouth was dry. I tried to moisten my lips and they were chapped and sore against my tongue.I was thirsty.I blinked up at the ceiling. The room was dim. I turned my head slowly.The thrum in my chest was faint. Barely anything. I knew before I'd even finished looking around.Xahen wasn't here.I sat up slowly and held the comforter to my chest and stayed there for a moment.My thighs were sore. My arms. My wrists. My lips.All of it sitting right there, a full inventory of last night that my body had taken without being asked.I let out a tired sigh and pushed myself to my feet.My gaze froze on the corner of the room.There was something there I hadn't noticed before. Tall. Plugged into the wall. I stared at it from where I was standing, trying to make sense of the shape of it in the dim light, and then I crossed the room s

THEODOSA.The painkillers were in Afnie's bathroom cabinet.She came back with two and a glass of water and handed them to me with the careful energy of someone trying very hard not to ask the seventeen questions currently sitting behind her eyes.I took them without looking at her.The tension in the room was sitting at a specific level that nobody was addressing out loud, which was fine by me. Nala was on the couch looking at me with that particular expression she wore when she was turning something over in her head and hadn't decided what to do with it yet. Afnie was standing by the kitchen counter watching me like I might suddenly do something alarming.I drank the water and set the glass down."Stop looking at me like that," I said to Afnie."I'm not looking at you like anything.""You're looking at me like I've grown a second head."Afnie opened her mouth and then closed it and looked at Nala instead.Nala said, still looking at me, "We need to talk to someone who actually knows

XAHEN.My jaw clenched so hard I felt it in my back teeth.I stared out at the ocean, at the nothing sitting on the surface of it where my enemy should have been visible, and felt my temper climb to levels I was actively working to keep from doing what they wanted to do.I needed to think.The smoke wasn't helping. It was flooding my lungs and coating my throat and making the kind of clear calm thinking I needed right now significantly harder than it should have been. I pulled my gaze from the water and brought it to the flames surrounding the ship, running the calculation fast and not liking the answer.If I didn't put this fire out soon, everyone on this ship was going to burn alive.Another ball of flame careened out of the air from nowhere, crossing the ocean in a blazing arc and hitting the centre of the deck. It landed and spread immediately, a circle of hot fire pushing outward through the middle of the ship, eating through the wood with the focused appetite of something that h