“You almost killed him, Nailea,” Melia said to me, and her words made me frown at the contradiction to what she had told Max before she had Alton taken to her hut.
“You told Max that there wasn’t anything too bad happening with him,” I told her as I sat by Alton’s head, stroking his head and taking out of his face as I watched him. Someone I had almost killed, according to Melia.
“I couldn’t have told every single one out there that he was on the brink of death. If they had panicked, you wouldn’t be here right now. Adora would have convinced Max to hand you over for punishment, and you would have been forbidden from using your powers,” she informed.
“Thank you,” I mumbled, moving away from Alton, just in case I was still a possible threat to his life.
“You don’t have to. His internal i
