I slumped on the floor for a minute, gasping to get air back into my lungs, trying to relearn how to breathe. Adrenaline was coursing through my body, but not enough to keep the pain at bay. Now that the fight was over, pain receptors were operating all over my body and I drew myself up to my feet and sucked in huge amounts of oxygen while I leaned my hands on my knees, waiting for my heart rate to slow before I straightened up.
Conal transformed, eyeing the bodies lying on the floor warily as he padded towards me, gloriously naked and not in the slightest embarrassed. “I"m not sure the fearless sigil is good for you,” he announced mildly. “You get pretty crazy. Seriously, Charlotte - "I"m an Angel, who would have thunk it?" ”
I reached for the haversack Nick had carried with him, when h
