Chapter 157: Adelaide.

Safira almost bites the healer’s head off.

Cain asked for her and a guard helped us go find her. By the time she got here a healer was already working on Cain’s back.

According to the healer, Lyros had touched her. Not in a sexual way but it was intimate all the same.

She walked in with ethereal light surrounding her. Every step she took shuddered with a primordial force and I felt awed by it.

She said Lyros poured power into her.

If she didn’t use it the way he wished, he would cause the energies to revolve and kill her.

She looked excited and scared out of her wits at the same time.

Safira arrived looking colder than the northern Kingdoms.

“I said the skin over that part isn’t mended well!”

The healer shudders yet again and Cain sucks in a breath. I summon the courage to do something I have never done before.

I walk over to Safira, take her by the arm gently, and I pull with as much firm force as I can. When she turns to glare at me it’s a fearsome thing to behold, but I've