Elemental Heir | ✔️

Chapter 32

(WARNING! This chapter contains sexual content. Read at your own risk.)

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My nerves were completely and utterly shot as I stared into the floor length mirror. I should've been panicking. But I'd been through so many emotions in the last week. It was as if I'd simply... Run out.

I felt strangely calm, as if it were any other night. It didn't feel like I was about to be the victim of a very powerful, very painful, very life changing public rune removal ritual. Perhaps it was a good thing that I didn't feel afraid. Though, it was unnerving... To feel nothing.

I wore a long, flowing, silk white gown. The only part of the dress that wasn't white was a beautiful, intricate design in the midsection, made of silver beads. My make up was done beautifully, my lips stained a deep red. The lack of color in my appearance seemed to mirror my mindset.

I had not seen Dristan since he left the public lashing with Andromeda in his arms. He was probably still with her, as well as Torryn, in the infirmary. I sent a prayer up to the gods that they were both recovering swiftly.

And Dristan... I prayed that he, too, was okay.

A familiar, loud whoosing sound startled me out of my day dreaming, and I immediately ran from the bedroom, through the living room, and into the kitchen.

Dristan stood in the doorway of the balcony, his wings tucked in tightly, his hair a wild array of dark tufts around his horns. His eyes met mine, the deep, cerulean orbs swimming with tension and anxiety.