Natalia
My head rears like I’ve been slapped.
Is he serious?
Turning to him, I pin him with an incredulous expression, “Are you crazy?”
His eyes shift from the man’s motionless body to my face.
“How can you just throw away a dying man like that?" I snap, my voice coming out in a growl. Does Cardan no longer have any iota of empathy in him? Have the years hardened him up so terribly?
I don't expect the pain and fury to fill me until I feel like I'm spilling over. My hands shake.
He stares at me with an impassivity that's frightening, there's no sign of any normal human emotion in there, just cold steel and ice.
And the entire gateway falls deathly quiet.
No one utters a word.
“I want to treat him.” I say, not backing down.
There isn’t a twitch in Cardan’s expression. Not a c
