Page 60 of The Stone Curse
He dipped his chin. “Areyouokay?”
I nodded, my mouth dry.
“That’s all that matters, Cam.”
But that wasn’t true. “You matter too, Curi.”
His smile slipped, but he fixed it back in place quickly. “Course I do. And I can take care of me just fine. But we need to tell the others your fever is back.”
“Shar, Touron, and Derek know, but there’s more I need to tell everyone. Curi, I believe that?—”
“What are you two whispering about?” Ginia called out.
I took a deep breath and finished my sentence for all to hear. “Serath is alive.”
Silent faces stared back at me, and Shar was the first to speak.
“I know you dreamed about him the other night, but?—”
“I did. And I dreamed about him again last night. He’s alive. He told me. The graynites have him. He says he’s running out of time and?—”
“He’s alive?” Curi said softly. “You knew last night?”
I looked up at him, stomach in knots. “I woke up from the dream with the fever and?—”
“Your fever is back?” Palia asked.
“What fever?” Levi asked.
“What were you doing with Cam last night?” Derek demanded of Curi.
And suddenly everyone was speaking at once.
“Enough!” Orix stood by the stairwell, Taz at his feet. The room fell into pin-drop silence as he raked us all over with a stern glare. “Now one person, tell me what the fuck is going on.”
All eyes turned to me, and my stomach sank. I fixed my gaze on Orix. “Serath is alive, and we need to save him.”
No one spokewhile I filled them in on my dream about Serath and how I was certain he was alive, that it was more than a dream. “He said he made a place to hide. An anchor. The lake and the bench…I think he’s fighting them by hiding a part of himself there.”
“If heisalive, then I believe it,” Orix said. “I believe he could do it. Serath is the most mentally strong of us all.”
“This is insane,” Levi said. “A wound like the one you described isn’t something he could have survived.”
“They must have healed him,” Touron said. “I believe Cam. I think he’s alive, and she’s somehow able to connect to him.”
“But you never consummated,” Ginia said.
“She’s a halfblood,” Palia retorted. “The rules don’t apply. In fact, we don’t know the rules.”
“He’s alive…” Curi said softly. “What you felt last night…the fever…that was you yearning for him…”
“You had another episode?” Shar asked.
“What is this fever?” Levi asked again.
Shar filled him in quickly about the fever, the needing, the sidhe moon, and my fae blood.
His gaze whipped my way. “You have fae blood?”
