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The ter My veins pulsed with heat that scorched along nerve endings, through muscles and bones, as ifwater and had the sae to arch, to keep my back flat on the bed, but it was so very, very hard Tears leaked froether

Teeth claround myself with Cactus was across the roo--the coward Smit had already turned away to sorabbed his forear past my lips

"It will be over quickly, just breathe"

I stared up at hiold lashes, a scar over his left eye so faint I’d not noticed it before, a sharply angled jaw line, ears tight to his head, but the left one had a nick out of the top, ot the scar over his left eye I’d have to ask hi aroundprofile, nose a little on the crooked side with a bue, probably another injury Air escaped me in a whoosh, and the heat in my body slowed a fraction

Honey eyes, he had liquid honey for eyes that no doubt burned hot when heme hard I pulled h me, but not with the intensity it had started with

"Thanks, I think the worst has passed"

"Can you stand?"

I slid sideways, ignoring the fact that iven me "No, but I can talk-k-k-k-k-k" The stutter at the end hit side a particularly sharp pain in my knee I clamped a hand around it

"Sive us the cleansing fire?" I bit out the words I ed my knee, tried to focus on ere here for and not the draining effect the healing was having on h "I am a healer, and you now that my first and most important oath is to help any who ask for it"

Ash tensed besidee were banking on

I forcedfor your help"

Save me a soft, sad smile "I would help you if I could, truly, you must believe that But there is a soddess that the problem was indeed small, that it would be easily suriven in return, a reward Anything

Orange eyesfire has been taken by another Apparently, you are not the only ones plagued by plague"

I was standing without realizing it "Whowho took the cleansing fire?"

Wiping his hands on a thick white towel, he tucked the edge of it into his belt "The Sylph’s had one of their Enders co"