Chapter 16: A Mysterious Bond

Sorin pulled the blankets up over Koray, did his best to see Koray was comfortable, and then went to stoke the fire. When it was going strong, he stood there watching it, lost once more to his whirling thoughts. His skin itched, almost seemed to burn, as though he was overheating and threatening to cook himself from the inside out.

It was a feeling with which he was long familiar, a price he paid for the power bestowed upon him as High Paladin. But suddenly all he could think about was Angelos' admonition to keep touching Koray and Koray's soft words before he'd passed out. You're so warm.