I drifted like a log down the river, bobbing up to consciousness for a few moments before I was dragged down into the confusion of my dreams. It wouldn’t be long before she died. xxx 18 “…she deceives…pretends…lion among the…beware…Astarte…”
The sun sank to the west, long shadows spreading through town. “Just keep going, wife of mine,” Reina whispered when it was her turn to support me. I waved back, drinking in their love. “She can heal Queenie!”
Rex’s words shot through me. I drank down her ambrosia. The splintered asphalt crunched beneath my shoes. Ahead, a pair of tents stood by the river bank and a woman wearing a gray robe and a white veil.
