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ARWEN
I’M GOING TO BE SICK AGAIN,” WARNED RYDER AS HE HUNG HIS
head over the wet steel edge of the ship. Angry droplets of rain pelted
us both as I rubbed soothing circles into the damp fabric clinging to
my brother’s back.
“I’m here,” I said, trying to send lighte into his knotted stomach. I
waited, and waited some more, until I couldn’t help but tense my fingers
against the void I felt where my lighte should have regenerated days ago.
Nothing.
Still nothing.
Ryder retched into the churning sea below us.
In the ten days since the battle of Siren’s Bay, I had healed the entire
ship of all their wounds without my power. The injuries inflicted by
Lazarus’s army, burns singed and gashes slashed by both lighte and Fae
weapons, were more damaging to the Onyx and Peridot soldiers than any
mortal steel. It had been the most taxing work I’d ever done.
And all the while, elbow-deep in bandages and sickly, fevered sweat, I
tried to grieve.
We had held a small, makeshift funeral for her—the woman I had
always thought was my mother. Against the rhythmic creaking of ropes and
the quiet flapping of sails, the unscathed soldiers aboard had lowered her
body into the sea beneath us. I said a few words, all of which felt flat and
foreign in my mouth. Mari sang a hymn. Ryder cried. Leigh didn’t look at
any of us, and then slunk into our cabin belowdecks before we even
finished.
It had been awful.
Kane had asked if he could join us. I believe his words were, “I’d like to
be there for you, if you’ll let me.” As if his presence might have somehow
made me feel better, instead of infinitely, infinitely worse. I hadn’t wanted
him anywhere near my family. Or what had been left of them.
Then, the storm came.
A thunderous assault of rain, with waves that sloshed against the ship
like battering rams. It raged and raged throughout our entire journey. Those
who sought even a minute’s reprieve from stale cabin air were immediately
soaked in a frigid deluge. Yesterday the captain had rationed the ship’s
coals, leaving us without hot water. I already couldn’t stomach any more
lukewarm porridge.
I looked down at my fingers on Ryder’s back. They were eternally
pruned, like little raisins. He heaved again, and down the bow a couple feet,
a Peridot woman in a weather-beaten wool cloak followed suit.
Though I was lucky not to suffer from seasickness, the same couldn’t be
said for the rest of the passengers. The stomach-turning sounds of retching
echoed at all hours of the day and night. I offered care to whomever I could,
but without my lighte there wasn’t much to do.
I hadn’t offered any help to Kane, though.
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