Sitting with his back bent on a rock, his brow furrowed, Cahl had his gaze fixed at the entrance of the mine when our eyes met. My legs trembled with a mad desire to accelerate the pace and jump on him, drunk with joy to find him alive and to have succeeded in my mission.
His golden eyes didn't let go of mine until I joined him. He was holding his stomach with one hand, a gesture that indicated to me that although he had swallowed the Kitsune pearl, he was still suffering from his wound.
“From the noises coming from inside, I thought you would never get out of there in one piece.”
He opened his arms to greet me as I secretly wished he would. After this brief embrace, I quickly backed up several centimetres.
"Help is on its way," I told him, forcing myself to face him without blinking.
