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Seeing Drayce like this made Caelan sick to his sto weaker by the day The worst part would be having to leave him behind Drayce would not take that well He would try to follow theh or not And that would er Caelan needed to do so

“Drayce, I want to try so, but I need you to not freak out”

Naturally, Drayce tensed and started to turn his head so he could look at Caelan over his shoulder Caelan tightened his fingers in Drayce’s hair and held his head still “What?”

“I want to see if I can get rid of some of your nausea with the power of the Life Stone”

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” There was a small waver in Drayce’s voice that made Caelan smile

“Of course Tula is the Goddess of Life; she’s a natural healer”

“I don’t doubt that, but no offense, Cael, you’re not a natural healer”

Caelan snorted “You’re just thinking about what you’ve seento set Kaes loose in your stomach”

Drayce groaned painfully and curled up a little e of the bed “Are you sure you can keep all the gods and goddesses separate in your brain? What if Kaes is in the h Or torture?”

With a sigh, Caelan shifted on the bed, scooting lower so that he was spooning his friend He removed the hand he had in Drayce’s hair and very carefully set it on Drayce’s slender waist His friend flinched, his body tensing

Caelan re for Drayce to relax “Do you really think I’d do so to hurt you?”

“No, but do you actually have control of all those gods?”

“There’s only one god inyour life hell”

Drayce relaxed a lanced over his shoulder at Caelan “What about the goddess? Isn’t she in your head?”

“She’s not in et to borrow some of her power That’s all I need for this” Caelan bent his free arm and used it to pillow his head He closed his eyes and took a deep breath “I need you to relax Breathe with me”