Chapter Sixteen
Immortals could go without sleep for long periods and still function. I’d once stayed awake for two weeks straight after a dig in the Arctic went south. The entire human crew had been lost to the elements, but I’d survived and kept moving. I knew that if I stopped, I would succumb to the elements too. So I walked in the snow for twelve days before I found civilization again. I’d started hallucinating at the end of the first week.
I would see paintings in the sky and sculptures in the snow. I swore that Zane was with me, talking to me, demanding I took the next step and then the next that would lead me back into the warmth of his arms. This was back at the earlier part of the century, so phone lines were crude, but I was able to get a message to him. I have no idea how, bu
