Chapter 64

Ishaan watched her fall, watched her slither out between the Head’s hands and slump to the ground. She hit hard enough to make him wince and he entirely ignored the sudden new voice in order to get to her as quickly as possible. He cradled her against him, acutely aware of the blood leaking down her face as it ran out of her ears. He had to get her to the Heart, Carina had said that the Heart would heal her after she’d undergone the Mindshatter.

He lifted her from the floor and turned, only to come face to face with an enormous creature that his mind could only parse as what would happen if someone threw a snow leopard and a human in a blender and hit the frappe button and then turned the enlarge setting on. The creature, it must be one of the Cassoth, was staring down at Carina with the most awful look of hungry avarice on it’s face that he’d ever seen.