Lyra's shrieks bounced around the cell. Beside my body, Kaelen convulsed and choked on every breath as more black blood stained the floor.
The iron door stood open behind them.
Nothing hurt me anymore.
Elder Galton entered without looking at Lyra or the Alpha on the floor. He stepped around the spilled antidote and found my body on the hay.
He stood over the blood and broken stone, his breath shaking on the way out.
He knelt and brushed the straw from my cheek without catching it in my hair. No one had been that careful with me in years.
I moved closer out of habit. His hand passed through the place where I hovered.
“Fools.” His hand stayed beside my face. “You blind, arrogant fools.”
Kaelen pushed himself up on trembling arms and spat another mouthful of black blood. “A healer.” A
