Thayne had only gone to check the human’s condition, to see if the king’s health might improve. But the sight that met him froze him in place.
Naya knelt beside Serena, lips moving in a rhythm of strange words, the air thick with something unexplainable and she healed the human.
“What….are you?”
Fear stabbed through Naya’s chest as her eyes locked with his. In a heartbeat, her hand lifted, words spilling fast and low. Thayne’s expression faltered, his gaze blurring, and the memory of what he’d just witnessed slipped from his mind , just like smoke carried off by the wind.
He blinked, shook his head, and in the next instant rushed to Naya, who had collapsed to the floor.
“What’s wrong?” he demanded.
“I feel… ill. Worried for the human,” Naya lied, clutching her chest.
A faint stir b
