-Carter-
Ladon looked like he could barely sit up. His head was practically resting on his shoulder, so tilted to the side it was, and he seemed to even drool a little. Sh*t, I had told Mefan to go easy on him, and this was the condition he brought him in?
“Relax,” Mefan said.
“Relax? He looks like he can’t move!”
“He can’t.”
“What did you do?” I asked and grabbed him by the collar, pulling him close to me.
But I shouldn’t have done that. My skin suddenly felt itchy, as if it were yearning for something... yearning for his touch. Oh, this was really bad... I shouldn’t want... more.
I slowly took a step back, not liking the distance between us, but I pushed that feeling away as I crossed my arms and focused on him.
“You know Ashes is going to kill us, right? We can’t bring him back
