Chapter 159

• "Sometimes, when a mate is very sick and her life partner isn't with her; providing occasional touching or making love to him, his body can go into a Crave Shock. It's very dangerous. Once it starts, it kills the mate within fifteen minutes of no intervention from his mated partner."
• "Jesus, what a mindfuck. Just fifteen minutes? It takes more than an hour to get to the Tower!"
• "One hour, thirty-seven minutes. Forty-five minutes when you run there in shifted form." Eline confirmed.