Panting for breath, she sank to the floor. The yellow tendrils faded. She knelt beside Axel and pressed her ears against his heart. It was once beating faintly. She used to be elated. "Elty," she said softly. "Please continue to be with me." Her essence was nonetheless flowing out in soft ripples around her body. She positioned her hand over his coronary heart and goaded her essence to mingle with his. She closed her eyes chanting one last spell earlier than her mind grew to become addled. She waited, waited, and waited for the spell to work.
A muscle feathered under her hand. She thought she was once imagining when all of a sudden, his heartbeat thundered underneath her hand. She gasped and found herself staring in the raven black eyes of Axel . "Hazel !" he rasped.
She was once so ela
