I didn’t know how much time had passed. It didn’t matter. Time dissolved in my shattered mind, inside that freezing basement, beside Viktor.
I had to get out of there. I couldn’t bear to look at him like that.
I sat outside the mausoleum, with Arcano wrapping his tail around my leg. I didn’t tell him what I had found. And he didn’t ask. He must have guessed from the state I came out in. He simply stayed beside me, silent, offering his feline comfort. My head was buried in my hands, my curls blocking my vision. When I finally heard footsteps in the distance, the sound pulled me out of my daze.
I lifted my head just in time to see a silhouette appear in front of me.
"Is he in there?" Lyn asked. The full moon rising above her head like a halo.
She was my only hope to help him.
I said no
