Chapter 28
The nagging pain that had followed me ever since leaving the professor’s side disappeared in an instant...and in its place a tearing agony of loss forced a cry from my lips. The sensation was akin to losing a leg to a shark or ripping out my own entrails with jagged fingernails...except, I’d have to say my current agony was far, far worse.
In response, I glanced down, half expecting to find blood squirting out of my femoral artery as the ground rose up to meet my face. But I was still standing erect and the night-darkened grasses appeared just as dry and unsullied as ever beneath my feet. No, this desperate ache hadn’t resulted from a physical injury that I’d been so oblivious as to miss.
On the other hand, the summer air had turned so cold against my skin that I could barely
