The killing was sad. Not gaining anything from killing a damn level three Apex was too bad. This damn Lodestar has to be nuked in the end.
I closed my mouth and suppressed a lot of curses as we trekked. It had been two days without water, and I was merely existing by circulating my essence around my body and moving. This was what Kassie had asked me to do to reduce the rate at which energy was burning through my system. It was somewhat like replacing the body's function with essence, letting the power do what flesh couldn't sustain anymore.
Maggie was in my soul, resting peacefully, and Kassie was here but she wasn't riding on any essence so it was quite good.
After a while, we finally reached a place that struck stars into our eyes. It was a city. Immediately I realized it was a city, my eyes sharpened.
One can't go through the dangers I had gone through in the past few months and not at least have this edge to them. It was getting very difficult to trust really peaceful things.
