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Life just never gets less complicated, does it?
“You must ask the Goddess to heal him. That’s a fatal wound, Karana. His skull is cracked and blood pools against his brain.”
“No!” Karana gasped, her strength quite wrung out. Kefen lay unmoving, his head in her lap, the huge purpling bruise standing out from his forehead by nearly an inch.
“And to each their time must come. Perhaps it is simply his time.”
The words were almost harsh, but the tone somehow carried a compassion that was... beyond human. As if this strange, silvery woman knew of sorrow and loss beyond what others could comprehend.
“No!” Karana cried again. “It can’t be!”
“And why not?” the strange, silvery woman asked, seeming merely curious.
“Because – because–” Words failed the knightess, and she bent her head.
“Because?”
“Because I don’t want him to die,” Karana whispered.
“We never want those we cherish to die,” the silvery woman said calmly. “And yet they all do. Why not this one? Why not now? What is he to you that you would ask the Great Goddess to save him?”
Karana shook with tears she could not shed. “He is my Bound Companion.”