With the dark, his body began to cool almost immediately. The cave was just enough to get them out of the sun, to let the dark sooth his skin, and with that something of the pain would start to drain away, or so he hoped. He"d never been in this kind of dry before. It was bad, and he knew it.
His lips were cracked open and his flesh was red. There wasn"t a spot on his body that didn"t hurt. Mason closed his eyes and willed the pain to subside. He didn"t dare expend the energy to attempt to heal. As his breathing calmed and his skin cooled, he could sense beyond himself. There was water nearby. It called to him and he knew he only had to wait for the sun to go down before he could search it out and let it restore him to something closer to himself.
Alaric"s body blocked more of the sun ne
