As they walked back out of the cave Mikhail saw that Natalie was a little unsteady on her feet.
“Are you okay?”
“I’ll be fine…” She muttered, brushing him off. He knew she was bitter about having to do this summoning, and the meeting with Cheron hadn’t gone completely smoothly. So they had no way of knowing if he was going to give her request to Hades or not. She had used a lot of blood to summon the river Styx and Cheron and he could see she was near to fainting.
“Natalie, take some blood from me…please…I can’t bear feeling what I’m feeling from you right now.”
Natalie sat down just outside the cave on a rock, nearby to the rock Mikhail had sat on waiting for her return only a week before. She looked exhausted and gaunt. Mikhail knelt in front of her and held her hands in his as he pl
