Natalia P o V
It’s been almost three weeks since Helios was taken. My body was a constant ache that I couldn’t even heal because the pain wasn’t mine. Celeste had forbidden Evergreen from letting me watch the feed after I’d shifted in anger at a particularly bad torture session. I agreed to her terms when I realized Hestia and I were only mildly in control. I kept trying to function, helping heal and try to get the rescued shifters to communicate. It was hard, some of them barely knew how to speak and the few words they would speak, we needed to figure out what language they spoke. I only spoke about 5 languages and two of them were the same as what Theo, Sebastian and Gonzalo spoke. They were much more helpful. The little they'd managed to get out of them was grim. The oldest had been fo
