It was a minute to sundown when Arah and I finally reconciled. I told her about finding Ty in my vision and how he was being treated. I left nothing out. It was better that she heard the whole truth.
"You've got to save him," she said while looking down at her feet. "You know he has such a low pain threshold…"
"Yeah, I know," I answered in a steady voice. "I'm going to save him. Then you can go back to scolding both of us when we come home."
At last, she looked up to face me, tears pooling underneath her eyes. Arah wiped them down with the back of her hand and then she said, "I'll be waiting… and Dean, tell Aura, thanks for coming to talk me down… I don't think I'm ready for the Fayne… yet."
"No one ever is," I sighed.
My return to Hoodwink Tower later that night was met with the sound of clanking steel and cracking stone.
