“Are you finally awake?” Omi asked. He had taken to walking slumped over to keep me balanced on his back while I had slept.
“I’m so sorry,” I whispered as I tried to wipe away the wetness in his hair.
He chuckled. “It’s okay, I’m not mad. We’ve made a lot of progress, we’ll be at the surface soon at this rate.”
“You carried me all this way?” I stared down at him and my arms tightened. He took one hand off my leg to place it on my hand and squeeze back.
“You needed your rest. Things haven’t been easy on you with us. The least I could do is keep going as we walked down here. You’re not exactly heavy or anything anyway.”
Angel stood close to us and sniffed the air. “Acacia, your scent is different.”
“My scent?” I proceeded to smell myself. “What’s different about it?”
“Tydeus.” He to
