ARIA POV -- while the war was still raging---
After Jasper stormed off, Kara started healing me. He didn't do huge damage but still... he landed a couple of nasty blows that had my head spin and stomach hurt like a b***h.
Time stretched as I waited for any sound, but there was nothing coming from the outside world. The dungeon had only one sound.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
Water falling somewhere in the darkness, hitting stone in slow, patient intervals that made time stretch into something shapeless and endless.
I had been counting them for a while.
At least I thought I had.
After a few hundred I had lost track.
I knew Alaric was fine out there.
Kara would have felt if something had happened to him. but still... couldn't help but let anxiety creep up a bit on me.
I tried once again to
