STELLA
I relax my head on Xavier’s chest. Although ‘relax’ is clearly not the right word here. Connor is spreading the flesh on my hand so that we could see the bone we the carvings my father had done. And I scream out as the pain is excruciating, intolerable even.
Xave kisses me on the top of my head and somehow it just makes me feel a little bit better. Even though I know that we still have problems, even though I remember that he didn’t tell me that he visited Maddie yesterday… But just having him next to me here and now helps.
Connor and Cassidy pronounce a spell in an unknown language and the artefact in by bone starts shining.
“Now!”, the warlock commands, “We need to carefully put your hand under the water.”
His fingers are still inside my flesh and he seems fully co
