At her silence, Declan opened his eyes, focusing at once on her cobalt gaze. At the fear swirling in their depths, icy fingers coiled around his spine before fisting his gut in their piercing grip. "Please," he whispered. "I need to know."
"I---I..." Doc's eyes softened and she shook her head. "I'm sorry."
"Why? What did you see?"
"Nothing," she said, her fingers nervously fidgeting with the hem of her lab coat. "I mean, I don't know what I saw. It doesn't work like that. I feel what you feel. See what you see. Not the future."
An odd combination of relief and disaapointment sliced through him. He sighed. A defeated lumpsank in his chest, dragging his heart down with it. He knew he should be focused on getting the dragon crystal back, on fighting to save his flock from certain annihila
