“Elijah!” I instantly grimaced at his words. The wince of hurt was instant and clear on my face. I could not think of any other excuse for his anger and jerk like behavior than what had happened to us at Adramalech. Maybe he had kept the anger and pain vent in his heart and all of that was now pouring out of him. Maybe the reality for what he had done for me was finally setting in and he was regretting his choices.
Maybe the lashes that had been inflicted upon him had left more scars than the ones visible to my eyes.
Although I saw a muscle twitch in his jaw right after saying those words to me but he did not apologize or wait to hear my reply, nor did he show any expression of regret or remorse on his face. And this time instead of running up the stairs, he decided to dematerialize so t
