Page 75 of Nixx
“Nixx, I need to talk to you. Where are you? I have some information to give you.”
I am surprised that Kryll would contact me at this hour and his tone is concerned.
“I just got home, but I can meet you outside. Is it urgent?”
“Yes, I think I'd better let you know soon.”
“I'll meet you outside.”
I leave the room after a last contrived look at my sleeping companion. Outside, Kryll is waiting for me a few meters above the forest. I join him in a few strokes of wings.
Kryll's face is drawn and he looks worried.
“Kryll, I greet him with a nod. What's going on?”
“I have received information from the northern lands. Disturbing information.”
“What do you mean? Did Svenn have any problems with his appointment? Rymm didn't tell me anything about it.”
I continue to fly toward Kryll who is going a little further into the forest. He stops and lets me approach him.
“No Svenn is fine. The real problem is you!”
And before I know it, Kryll pounces on me and shoves Sarah's injector into my neck. I feel the bite of the needle and I immediately feel myself sinking.
I have just enough time to call out to Lokk as I fall, whipped by the trees on my way.
“Lokk, help . . .”
Then the absolute black.
Sarah
“Sarah, wake up, beauty.”
Lokk shakes my shoulder and the urgency in his tone wakes me from sleep instantly. But what is he doing in the room?
“Lokk?”
“Get dressed. Something happened to Nixx. We don't know what, but he called me for help and since then, nothing. No one can reach him. No one has seen him since.”
I get up immediately, without making a fuss about my nudity and quickly get dressed. I follow Lokk out of my house. He grabs me and drops us off at the training ground with a few swipes of his wings.
It is dark. Some torches have been lit.
“Sarah, did you see Nixx after your fight?”
