I couldn't make out how long it had been, but the stars in the night sky seemed to have dimmed out a little. I could tell that we had spent at least three hours in this arena just by looking at them. There was only one large gap amidst the thicket where there were no leaves of trees to hide the sky. Lucas must have walked all the way here, carrying me away from the heat.
I got up slowly from the top of his body, where I had nestled in quite comfortably without realisation. His face looked slightly haggard, yet never less admirable under the twilight. I shifted the hair from his forehead to check his temperature as I feared he had caught a fever.
All of a sudden, he caught my wrist as my fingers whisked underneath his fringes. I gasped in a short second he had frightened me. I was afraid that the poison he had sucked out had caused him to be exhausted. I still wasn't affected by it except the immediate effects. Perhaps the venom of Salvita was a slow-killer.
