Chapter 33
Aros Somewhere at the Aracious Sea Present Day Her soft heartbeat was the single most pleasant sound in the whole wide world. I could never get used to not hearing it again. It gave me peace. It grounded me and cleared my mind to hear it, gently pumping life into my mate’s little body. I’ve washed her and tended to her wounds already. A total of thirty scratches, two burns in the soles of her feet and two deep gashes in her left thigh that had made me feel murderous. Apart from the obvious she hadn’t suffered any hard hits to her head and by some miraculous act of the fates she seemed...healthy. I’d asked Didoka to check on her after my first inspection to be completely sure that Nira was fine. The monk had been trembling the entire time that he evaluated the gashes and wounds
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