SINGER: Get Scared
SONG TITLE: 'Dance With the Dead'
LYRICS: "Whisper me a miracle/Or think of something logical"
A/N: Part 1/2.
He'd get in the way were he there. He understands that and yet feels he should be there with a bone-deep longing. He is too restless to remain in the Hall of Princes with Arrow, every fibre of his being urging him to be there, to be at her side.
But she was his assistant and surely that entitles him to be there. Not to mention his Princehood ought to carry some weight . . . But no. It would be wrong of him to insist on being present, not to mention highly improper.
Larten will be with her, of course. Paris said that he accompanied her out of the cave. Well, may the luck of the vampires be with the medics if they try to pull him away. Mika may not be interested in taking a mate himself, but he has eyes and he can see as plain as day that those two are musing about mating again.
And they will mate. What can stop them? Certainly not anything Mika has to say. Of course they'll mate.
But if the wound is fatal? Paris said it was serious.
It can't be. She's Arra Sails. No Vampaneze is going to fell her at her prime. She'll pull through and recover. She and Larten will mate and the problem over what will happen to Darren will be solved easily enough. All will be well.
It has to be.
