Elara Pov
The horses couldn't go any further…
they'd been running for hours and their sides were heaving, foam at their mouths.
So we stopped in a clearing miles from anything that looked like civilization.
Kael slid off his horse and hit the ground hard, didn't even try to catch himself.
"Kael," I dropped beside him, rolling him onto his back.
His skin was burning hot, fever raging through him, the wounds on his chest had gone from bad to worse, infection spreading in dark lines up his neck.
"Is he breathing," Liora asked, already unpacking what little supplies we'd managed to grab.
"Barely," I said, pressing my hand to his chest to feel the shallow rise and fall.
We need medicine, a healer… or something.
"We can't go to any town," Liora said, her voice flat with exhaustion.
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