I wouldn’t have wanted to be on the receiving end of it. I was perfectly content to lie on the infirmary bed. It was a sad sign that I had been here so many times I could recognize it by touch without even opening my eyes. “Ferno killed his charge,” Vitae’s voice carried through the room. I figured she would be the one Hadrian was fighting with. “He left Ava alive when he could have taken her. We must find out why.” “If that mistake on Cayo Costa taught us anything, it’s that she cannot contain her abilities like this. She is human, and every gift she absorbs is killing her.” My heart plummeted. I was dying? I didn’t feel dead. Weak, yeah, definitely. I couldn’t even open my eyes yet. But dying? That couldn’t be right. Until I remembered Hadrian telling me that I had bled from my nose and ears when I Enervated, exerting too much power and took it from another false Stormkind. Bleeds like that meant there was cranial damage. A warning that said if I pushed myself too far, a part of my brain could burst and instantly kill me. My hands tightened on the bed sheets.
