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“I can heal your arm. Will you allow me to help you?”
“At this point, I don’t care what anyone does to me as long as my arm stops hurting.”
Her arm lifted, separating away from the rest of her carved wooden body. She laid the end, what I’d call her hand, though she had no fingers, on my fractured arm.
Air hissed from my lungs as pain spiked through me. Before I could jerk away, the pain eased, followed by a low burn flashing up and down my arm.
Like someone hit a light switch, the agony went away.
Gasping, I gaped down at my arm. The bone no longer stuck through the skin and the skin had not only sealed closed, I didn’t see a scar.
“You’re . . . thank you,” I said.
She dipped her head forward before turning and gliding back over to sit in the chair.
No, it was a throne, and she was a glorious queen.
“You’re not Zuldruxian,” she said, her voice tinkling through the air.
“I’m from Earth.”
“I don’t know of a place called Earth.”
I advanced toward her. Should I be scared of her? Probably. While she might not be a god, she was from an alien race unlike any I could’ve imagined. A very advanced alien race. “Earth is a planet.” I flicked my hand upward. “It’s out there somewhere. I was stolen and brought here.”
“I’m sorry.”
“From what I can tell, you weren’t involved.”
“I was not.”
Her head tilted, and she studied my face before her inky black gaze glided down my body. “Would you like to return to your Earth?”
“No.” I lifted my voice. “No! I want to stay here. Please, if you can tell the other gods not to send me back, I’d be eternally grateful.”
She stilled. “How grateful?”
I met her gaze with mine full of steel. “What would you like me to do?”
Chapter 36
Aizor
My mate was bleeding. Someone was carrying her. I was going to rescue her.
And then I would kill whoever took her, lay waste to him until there was nothing left for the forest beasts to pick over.
I followed the trail of her blood splattered on the ground. How could such a tiny being lose so much blood and still live? My heart roared, my pulse pounding in my ears as I ran along the trail, only slowing to make sure they hadn’t left the path and traveled in a different direction.
Nevarn had stolen Vanessa, and I would rip his arms from his shoulders, his legs from his hips and then, while he lay whimpering on the ground, I’d sever his head from his body.
This I vowed.
As I wove through the forest, I had to slow my pace. Enormous trees towered around me, so tall, it would take hours to climb them. Had he taken her up into the canopy? It wouldn’t surprise me. Without crystal god exoskeletons, where did his clan live? Krute suggested in wooden structures, but if they remained on the ground, they’d be eaten.
As I rounded the backside of yet another tree, still following the trail of my mate’s lifeblood, someone bellowed on my right and leaped toward me. He smacked into me, trying to drive me to the ground.
I swung out, the back of my fist impacting with his jaw. He shuddered but held his footing. Spinning, I kicked, and he took the blow in his belly, stumbling backward. Big and broad, he had to be at least a head taller than me. As huge as whoever had been spying on my clan from the mountain range above my village?
