“That all you got?” Castian mocked. Darius growled and lunged at him again.
Something instantly dawned on Chrystal as she watched Castian continue to move toward her as he fought Darius.
If I don’t fight back, I could die here, and, if I keep distracting him…I could get Castian killed!
Her pulse spiked. Not at the thought of her death, but at the thought of Castian’s. How or why she believed Castian’s death would be worse than hers, Chyrstal would never know.
As the thought flittered through her mind, her body reacted.
The same feeling she had during her one-on-one fight after getting out of the freezing river flowed back into her.
The sharpness was not there, but she was no longer on her back as she crouched facing Klaric, her dagger in her hand.
Klaric nodded gravely at her, his
