The soulmate mark was a cruel device if one's kamará was absent. For the first time in his life did Adrian understand what his father meant when he said he was in hell even before he had gone there to find his mother. For the first time, Adrian understood what his father went through when he had been without his mother for over a month and the pain that ripped through him, both heart and soul.
Ariana had replaced the gaisgich as the ghost in his mind. Her absence swam within the harrowed holes in his chest, sometimes even making it hard to breathe. Her absence was the weight in his stomach that dragged him into his own internal hell.
Adrian had felt Ari’s absence each of the six days she had been gone now. It consumed him so much, he knew this was far worse than any pain he h
