Chapter Seventeen
Part One
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
– William Blake
Lila jerked awake, screaming and shrieking and scaring the hell out of me as I desperately tried to calm her down. It didn't seem like she could hear me as she pressed her palms into her squinted-shut eyelids and rocked backwards and forwards yelling and cursing and screaming and shouting and sobbing.
Apparently Obsidian had finally unfroze her. It damn well took him long enough. Four, lonely hours I had stayed up, staring at Lila's frozen body with the terrible fear that she might never come unfrozen. Eventually, it got to the point where I was so tired that I was falling asleep standing up, all of my adrenaline having been drained as soon as IH had disappeared with the last of t
