Chapter Twelve
Talon
Talon fought against the pain as he lay half curled on the stone floor of his room. He gasped as he held back the roar that hovered at the back of his throat. Lacey was next door. He couldn’t make a sound. What stupid idea had possessed him to put her there? A drawn out groan escaped and he closed his eyes, trying to block out the pain. Eventually he was left panting on the floor, his wings retracting as he rolled onto his side. He wasn’t going to survive much more of this. The pain seemed to be getting worse. How did those infernal birds cope?
He staggered to his feet and began the process of bandaging himself and getting out another shirt. Bundling up the one now missing buttons, he shoved it in the bottom of his trunk with the other ones he needed to fix. Soon he
