"I'm fine."
"Uh-huh. You're a mess, and you're covered in dirt and ash, but you're fine?"
Eva stopped at the bottom of the stairs. She took the first step, then stumbled when she missed the second one. If Jonah hadn't been holding her, she would have fallen face-first onto the carpet.
"Ok." She breathed before she twisted around to sit on her butt. "So my perception is off. I'll get there."
"Yes, you will," Jonah agreed. "But no one is expecting it to be immediate."
"It has to be, handsome," Eva replied. "I'm fighting the father of monsters soon, after all."
"Not alone." Jonah sat on the stairs next to her. "You'll have all of us with you."
Eva studied him, then closed her eyes.
He squeezed her hand against her knee. "Baby, don't worry. He'll be in the ocean. I can shock him straig
