Falcon watched her run back into the inferno in slow motion.
He could have screamed his throat out.
'NO!' He shouted. He ran the horse over the wall of flames and searched blindly for Aurelia. The blazes, the rocks, and the soot were swirling around in the air like cursed fairy dust.
There she was, Falcon realized with a sigh. She was screaming and screaming as she searched through the mounds of rocks for Neptune...any sign of him to anchor her...any chance her friend would still be alive. He wasn't, Falcon knew it. He had seen Neptune's body getting shredded to pieces.
Falcon grabbed Aurelia and pulled her back onto the horse just as another rumble shook the ground and he yelped, pulling her close.
