~ RONAN ~
I'd already mindlinked Elias before we even pulled through the gates.
He's waiting when we arrive, him and his team, and I'm grateful for it because the injury on her wrist alone is enough to make Kael lose his mind, and that's only what I can see. There's no telling what's underneath that gown that I haven't seen yet. She looks pale, and this is not in a tired-pale way, it's the other that comes from the inside, from the body quietly negotiating with itself about how much longer it can keep going.
I'm not taking chances.
It takes everything in me to step back and let Elias do what I called him here to do. I'm not a doctor. I know that. Standing between her and the only person who can actually help her right now would be stupidity dressed up as protection, and I refuse to be
