Chapter III
THE WITHERING FLOWER
STORM WOKE UP TO BIRDS chirping outside and a cool morning breeze making the curtains flutter. He patted the empty bed. Sky was gone. He forced his tired eyes open and spied his husband leaning on the railing, looking out the balcony. Sky was enjoying his beloved view: the port and the shoreline with its angry waves hitting the rocks on one side and the winding road leading back to his home on the other.
Sky was wearing loose fitting clothes again, but it was not enough to hide his figure. He had lost weight, a lot of it. What kind of illness made you go from normal to skin and bones in a few weeks?
Campaign after campaign, battle after battle, it all got worse every time Storm returned. Sera would help Sky hide it and as far as Storm could remember fro
