"How do you fit into all of that? Is he doing that because of what he's become, or is it because he's found his way to you?" Isabell asked, sighing in relief as she felt tension melting away from her body as Heila worked. The potion she'd been given at the beginning might have blocked the pain, but that didn't mean that her body had healed. Now, however, bit by bit, she felt even aches and pains that had troubled her for several years starting to loosen and fade away.
"I love him," Heila said, without a moment of hesitation. "Not just because he fed on me either," she added quickly. "But he began to change long before I was even born. I just," Heila started to say before pausing again and wrestling with how forthcoming she should be.
