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“How long will it be until he’s recovered?” Adi asked. The queen turned around and smiled.
“Well, he has been mortally wounded. If I take him out of stasis now, he will be dead before he draws his next breath. So I need to heal him while he’s in suspension, which isn’t easy even for me.”
Adi closed her eyes, swallowing down the panic that had tried to overcome her every time she thought of losing Honi. He was so close to death. She’d never forget how his body had lain on the ground, pinned by the vicious-looking spear, struggling to breathe around the oak shaft. Towards the end, every breath was hard fought for through a torrent of blood. She’d known that he was about to die, at the rate the blood was leaving his body.
When she opened her eyes again, the queen held her gaze, apprais
