I dropped to my knees, shaking and crying like a
mad thing. I fell forward on my arms and just lay there, covering my
head..... I thought my life was over. But Akar never moved.' She
gazed across at her first companion, eyes glistening.
'Do you know what it's like to expect death and find friendship?
He was hurt, Kalus, badly. And half starved, I'm sure. He could
have killed me so easily, to save himself..... I looked up after maybe
five minutes, to find him just watching me, with all the hatred gone out
of his eyes. He came closer and I thought I would scream again, but he
stopped.
'The rest doesn't need to be said, I guess. But you have to know,
I've never been so moved in all my life as when he finally came up to
me, and I realized he meant no harm. Just to have a friend, to hold and
touch, after all that fear. To not be alone anymore. You can't know
how much that meant to me.' She lowered her head and cried silently,
and Kalus found to his dismay that a tear had escaped his eyes as well.
'I know,' he said. 'That is how I felt when Barabbas saved
me.' He wanted to say that she would never be alone again, but he
couldn't.
Chapter 18
The escape and release were not lasting. Almost the moment Sylviana
stopped speaking, he felt the cold dread of what he must do return from
its small distance.
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