Explicit Demands

NYSSA'S POV

I had been sitting propped up against the pillows for the last twenty minutes, listening to Kaelen recount the story of how he'd healed my wound with his own saliva. The memory was a blurry mess. I could see the copper tang of blood and the desperate, frenzied look in his eyes, but everything leading up to the impact and everything after was just a void of static.

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