“About time you finished,” Jari called and waved a glittering hand above his head. “You are finished, right?”
Alegan cuffed at his brow with the back of his hand and it came away with sticky damp. Exhaustion already tugged at his heels and fingertips. He hadn’t ever felt like this. On the other hand, he was a small child when he first learned about his power and had an abundance of energy to spare. What he wouldn’t give to turn back the world to those days.
“Yes.” He puffed the word out, too tired to say more. Stars above, he needed a nap.
Jari must have thought so too, because he scrambled to his feet, clods of black sand kicked up under his heels, and looped Alegan’s left arm over his shoulder. Good thing too, because Alegan’s knees turned to crumbling clay and he sagged into Jari’s s
