Elian;
The name cuts through me and leaves terror in its wake. Cold… frightening terror
Everything inside me goes still as I remember the creepy man I saw at the capital that day… the way he smiled at me… The stories of him that Elien told me…
That… That's the men who… found us?? That's the man who.. Spoke… in our mind???
"B-Balinar??" I repeat the name inwardly, with t sounding like a curse I mustn't have dared to utter.
"I can feel him, Elian", Elien says, and I listen in dreadful silence.
"It's not like before. It is no longer distant… or faint. This time, it's… close." He adds, and my hand subconsciously presses harder against my stomach, while the baby shifts again… More restless this time, like she feels the tension rising through me.
"That's not possible," I say, shaking my head slightly.
"Nagari is protected. The borders—Queen Selthía's magic—there's no way he could just pass through, and be close—" I add, but Elien cuts me off.
