Hades
My chest constricted, my lungs still burning from the last exerting task I had yet to recover from. I should have flown higher the moment I had noticed the hidden city, but attempting another one of those ascensions when I was still yet to recover from the first would have been detrimental.
We had already almost fallen from the sky.
My amplified sense of sight let me see the creature below us almost face-to-face. This made my lungs burn harder as dread crawled up my throat, leaving me bereft of air.
"Hades," I could hear the terror that tinged Kael's words. Though he could not see what I was seeing, he could feel something was wrong.
The eyes of the creature below burned red, and I could feel its heat and intense scrutiny even with the distance that separated us.
"Hades, what is wrong?" Kael asked. "What are you looking at?"
I tore my gaze away from the thing still staring right at us from below and turned to him, my voice strained and unfamiliar as I spoke. "Buckle up."
