We finally reached my species’ lands.
Our first stop was to see Jasper, who was taken from the jail cells to the hospital. He had refused to eat for days and was being kept under sedation and being fed supplements through a tube.
I knew he was going to be in bad shape, but nothing prepared me to see the shell of a man that my friend once was.
His color was completely drained, he was a pile of sin and bones in the bed.
“Jasper?” I whispered to my friend, at his bedside. Rob, Alina, Aeron, Wendy, and Magee stood in the room as well as Jasper’s parents. His mother crying on the other side of Jasper’s bed.
“Derrick, he will not respond to anyone,” Alkaline, Jasper’s father whispered.
I nodded, even though I still talked to Jasper, letting him know what was going on as Wendy helped th
