Chapter 116 Five? You've Got To Be Kidding!

• The first thing I became aware of was the crying. It wasn't the wailing of battle or the screams of the dying. It was something smaller and more insistent. The thin sound cut through the fog in my mind. I tried to turn toward it, but my body felt like it belonged to someone else. It was heavy and unresponsive. I was aching in places I didn't know could ache.
• “—think he's coming around.”
• That was Lud. Even though his voice was rough and scraped thin by exhaustion, I still recognised my mate by his voice.