Adam’s body cried out for rest, but he pressed on. He had tapped back into the iron self-control he’d abandoned while living in the fool’s paradise of his marriage and rejoiced once again in his ability to withstand cold and hunger and go for days without sleep. Only by subduing his body in this way could he drown out that other hunger: his longing for Zoe’s body and the warmth and forgiveness he’d thought he’d found in her arms. He turned his thoughts back to the road. A few more miles would take him to the harbor village of Stanraer. There he should be able to find a fisherman to ferry him across the miles of water that separated the Dark Lord’s domain from the shore. In only a few more hours he’d be reunited with his teacher, who awaited his arrival so eagerly, unaware of how unfit Adam had made himself to receive the powers he once craved. He awaited the swell of bitterness he should feel when remembering how he’d forfeited his chance to attain those powers, but he couldn’t find it.
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