312 Anything and everything (1/2)
Abi was breathless. She thought for a second that she was not going to make it because Alex hadn't moved to catch her the entire time they were falling. She thought that this was going to be her last moment here on Earth but he caught her at the very last second, just before she closed her eyes and prepared herself to die.
She gazed up at his face as the dust settled down.
”A-are you alright?” she asked. She felt his body temperature return to normal but the next moment, he wobbled and dropped to his knees. Abi quickly pulled away from him and held his face.
”Alex! Are you okay? Look at me,” she told him but he just closed his eyes and buried his head on the nook of her neck. His body became limp.
Abi started to panic and she shook him gently. ”Alex! Alex… please stay with me. Please be okay...” She pushed down her panic as she looked for signs of life. She breathed in deeply to slow down her racing heart and she breathed out a sigh of relief when she felt his heartbeat.
Now that her mind was calmer, Abi looked around to see if she could see someone who might be able to help her and was glad when she saw Zeke already approaching them.
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Inside Alex's room.
”Is he okay? He suddenly… he just suddenly fell, Zeke. I think there's something wrong with him. He also looked like he was in pain before he fell,” Abi told Zeke once the man was done checking on him.
Zeke looked at her and sighed.
”There's nothing wrong with his body,” Zeke replied.
”Then why? I saw him struggling to breathe and his body suddenly turned as cold as ice too. I felt it.”
Zeke turned and stared at Alex's sleeping face before he held Abi's arm and led her near the window. ”Listen, Abigail,” he started, looking intently into her eyes. ”At first I thought that he had lost his soul but that theory was proven incorrect judging from his reaction towards you. So then I thought that his soul might still be lurking within him, half dead. But now, after what you told me, I have another theory. I think that he might actually be dying. I think I got it wrong again when I thought that his body wouldn't die.”
Abi froze with what she heard. What? Her Alex was dying? But… he was an immortal! He had the dragon's blood running in his veins!
The thought made her feel like she was being strangled. No. Alex could never die.
Looking at her as she shook her head in denial, Zeke took a deep breath and made her look at him. ”Of course, this is again just another theory. But there's no other way to explain the things that are going on with him. This is the first time something like this had happened to him. An immortal would never lose his strength and power even if he was being cut into pieces. What happened to him almost seemed like he had turned into a powerless, dying human for a moment. And now, he even passed out. That has never happened before.”
”We only have one choice. We have to move now. I think he might be running out of time,” Zeke said and Abi looked at him with questions in her eyes. ”We are going to leave the castle at dawn to hunt those witches down.”