Dae sighed as he kneeled by my side. He grabbed my cold hands in his warm ones and held them tighter as I tried to pull away.
“Be still, sister.” His serious, opal eyes looked into my face pleadingly. He was so tall now that even when he was kneeling and I was sitting he was almost eye level with me. “You need to go back to the lab.”
I began shaking my head no before he had even finished his sentence. I was done.
“Yes. Yes, you do.” He glanced over at Moreta’s dying body. “I know you admired her and cared for her. I know you are taking this on yourself yet again. But you need to get up and go back to the lab and continue your work. This isn’t your fault- it was an accident.”
I pushed back the chair as I sprang to my feet. “You don’t know what is and isn’t my fault!” I snarled at him h
