To Kill An Angel
“I asked, reaching out to gently brush a strand of hair from Bo’s scorched cheek.
“He should heal fairly quickly,” Lucius said as he walked to the mouth of the mine, inciting more vicious growls from the hounds.
Even as Lucius spoke, I could see the charred tissue around Bo’s left eye, the more burned of the two, beginning to give way to healthy pink skin. Our situation was still too precarious for me to relax very much into the relief that I felt over his progress. We were in serious trouble ...and we all knew it.
“Why can’t they come into this mine?”
It was Annika who asked this question, but I looked to Lucius for an answer as well.
Lucius paced to the dirt wall of the tube and dragged his fingers along it, bits of dirt and dust flaking off and falling silently to the mine floor. He sniffed his fingers and then leaned in to get a better look at the mineral composition of the shaft. Straightening, he sniffed his fingers once more and then touched the tip of his tongue to them.MoreLess
“He should heal fairly quickly,” Lucius said as he walked to the mouth of the mine, inciting more vicious growls from the hounds.
Even as Lucius spoke, I could see the charred tissue around Bo’s left eye, the more burned of the two, beginning to give way to healthy pink skin. Our situation was still too precarious for me to relax very much into the relief that I felt over his progress. We were in serious trouble ...and we all knew it.
“Why can’t they come into this mine?”
It was Annika who asked this question, but I looked to Lucius for an answer as well.
Lucius paced to the dirt wall of the tube and dragged his fingers along it, bits of dirt and dust flaking off and falling silently to the mine floor. He sniffed his fingers and then leaned in to get a better look at the mineral composition of the shaft. Straightening, he sniffed his fingers once more and then touched the tip of his tongue to them.MoreLess
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