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Her internal deterioration stopped.
No, I could not do it.
Didn’t dare ponder on the name for the reason.
“Look at you, your lips so pale.” So bloodless, not even my thumb left an imprint behind as I pressed down on her bottom lip. “Who did this to you, hmm? Who dared to hurt my wife? You saw them? Know the names of those who caused this, yes?”
She nodded. “Three of them.”
“Good. Now, make another mention of a child, and I will shovel you a grave.” I turned away toward the bridge to the Nocten Gate. “Orlaigh!”
“Enosh…” Ada called behind me and when I looked back at her, she asked, “Do you know anything of my father? I… My memories of the attack are blurry at best, but I know he was there. Got injured trying to protect me. Is he alive? Will you at least tell me this?”
“The moment I found you, I hurried to the Court Between Thoughts to have your soul bound.” I shrugged and continued down the dais. “I ca
“Did you kill people there?”
Not yet. “Everything in due time.”
I once more delivered her flesh from a new onset of decay, safe for a small speck that resisted my power—paid for with a wave of weakness that clawed at my mind. Oh yes, what a poor husband I was…
“Always chasing me old bones,” Orlaigh muttered as she hurried toward the Nocten Bridge where I stood and waited.
I removed the rot from her body down to the expanding brittleness in her bones at the cost of a sway in my torso and a blur in my vision that expanded rapidly. Rest. I needed more rest.
“Prepare yourself to head to the nearest town in the Nocten lands within the next days,” I said. “You shall find out which god these people pray to while I will ride beyond the Œten Gate. I need to assess the lands, for I have allowed the world to fall away from my rule for far too long.”
“Yes, Master.” She dipped her head. “Just di
“So I shall hope.”
After all, I required an army.
A large one.