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"Yes… that is all That is…" His eyes returned to azed for the first time around the room that he had woken up in "Where am I? Who are you?"

"You’re safe," I assured him "Far away from those men in black uniform You’re on an island called The Shade Have you ever heard of it?" Or perhaps a better question would have been, Can you re a deep crinkle in his forehand as he frowned "I don’t know" Then he ran his hands over his face, covering his eyes His Adam’s apple bobbed as he sed hard "God," he whispered "What happened tothat you were kidnapped," Shayla replied "Fro by your accent, you’re not from America You were taken to a room where you were locked up and apparently served as the object for so to nurse you back to health so that you can reotten" She reached for his ar theers and then his wrists "Mobility seems okay in your arms and the upper portion of your body Are you able to s?"

Panic flashed across the s As he winced, I realized that he was trying to e

He exhaled a breath "I can’t," he rasped, his brown eyes shining with alar theh the fabric of his pants "Do you feel any sensation at all?" she asked

"No"

She pursed her lips "Yes As I feared, your legs have been paralyzed"

His breath hitched

"It should not be anything that we can’t fix, however," Shayla said, giving hi to leave you with Grace here while I go fetch you so to eat You’re terribly weak"

With that, Shaylaher uessed she didn’t want to lay too much on the man at once His head was already in a tailspin I wondered if he had ever encountered witches before

"Why would they have taken me?" he asked me "And ere they anyway? Why would they paralyze h Where do I even begin? He was still in such a daze right now, I doubted he could handle all the answers--and of course, I didn’t know all the answers anyway

"I’m not sure why they took you or why they paralyzed you But those people are part of a, uanization A very ruthless one"