If Ross’s head didn’t hurt so badly and he hadn’t heard the tremor in Gem’s voice, he would have laughed. As it was, besides the pain in his head, his chest hurt and his stomach was roiling with the desire to expel more lake water. He didn’t want to think of all the Kraken crap he had probably swallowed.
“Ashure, might I suggest that now would not be a good time to bring up the possibility of death and dying – for your own safety,” Nali calmly stated.
A slow, crooked grin curved his lips when Gem’s fingers curled protectively over his heart. The grin turned to a grimace when his stomach finally heaved one too many times, and bile rose up in his throat. He turned his head and expelled the liquid, coughing and choking as he gasped for air.
Once it felt like he could breathe again without
