Chapter 19, Kanika:
“I don’t understand why he did that… why he threw himself into danger for me?” Kanika sat on a low stool next to Felspar’s rack. She held his left hand.
The recent wounds from the attack oozed, the wraps tinted a strange rainbow of colors. She reached up and pushed his bangs behind his ear. Kanika wished he would open those breathtaking eyes so she could get lost in them once again. However, now in the dim light, his face, his entire body, held a sickly green cast.
“I have done what I can do. Now it is up to him. He needs to fight to stay alive.” Lizzie sat away from her captain, deep in the shadows, alone once more in the dark. “Why he came to your aid? I doubt he can even answer that question. Why did he jump into the water to save those who escaped Cliffside? Peop
