Elysia becoming a separate being from her mother depowered Kamila's body and core. It deprived her of the Dragon scales and the enhanced senses she had gotten so used to.
Kamila felt exhausted, so weak that she would have fainted on the spot if not for Tyris' warning. On top of that, she refused to lose consciousness before holding her baby.
"Is… this… what you meant?" Her eyes drooped and she felt like sleeping for a week.
Instead, she bit the inside of her cheek and used the pain to push through the drowsiness that was flooding her body.
"Yes." Tyris nodded. "For a Guardian it means losing half the power we have during pregnancy but for you is much worse. You just went from a cyan-cored Awakened to a yellow one. You are a few dozens of times weaker than you were a moment ago."
"Can I-" Lith stepped toward Salaark who was holding Elysia.
