Chapter 239

• [Primus]
• I should feel grateful, but as the night wears thin, I feel the weight of fear and expectations pressing down on me like a layer of sodden earth. If I am to be buried, let me funnel into the rock and soil beneath us and dig a tunnel to the Solar Kingdom and reclaim my mate. Or even better, let me burrow myself within her so deeply that I drown in her scent, our bodies interlaced so tightly that I forget where I end and she begins.
• But I can’t do that, not yet, not as things are now. There is too much at stake. I would never forgive myself if my happiness came at the expense of my family. I know that if I leave, if I were to jump off the tower and fall into the welcoming embrace of my element, even if they didn’t catch me in time to stop me, others would suffer.