Chapter 26: Unravelling
I make it through two more healings before collapsing into my own dreamscape to recover. Ash finds me there.
I refuse to tell him what I’ve been up to. He refuses to be upset about it—or to leave.
He could. He could even take one person across with him. What he can’t do is come back, not in a hurry, not when the barrier does so much damage to dreamwalkers.
But even for Lily’s sake, he won’t be persuaded to go. So I leave him behind and hunt down more broken people to set to rights, doing my best to ignore how the ones I’ve just healed are being lined up for sacrifice at this very moment.
I don’t watch it happen—the press of the Mara makes that nearly impossible, even if I wanted to, which I very much don’t. But people keep getting carted away from the prison do
