The pain in Red's head was comparable to a thousand blows on the skull, shattering it into tiny pieces. But even with those blows, her head was still intact and Red just wished it would explode and end her misery.
She saw flashes of many things in her head, and she knew this was probably the Darkling's effect on her through the daemon.
When Red had first met Raveesh on the first Midsummer Festival Games, she had experienced the same piercing pains in her head that made her pass out on the ground.
"Ah!!!" she screamed.
Ari was beside her, and he hovered over Red as he threw out all his reservations in the face of danger.
There was another daemon in their midst, and despite Ari trying to distance himself from Red, he couldn't possibly protect her if he wasn't near her.
Ari will just have to hope that Archer will understand that as a sworn faey warrior, his top priority was to protect his queen candidate.
