Kael
I came out of the trance gasping for air, my lungs burning like I'd been drowning. My eyes felt strange, different somehow, and when I blinked, everything looked tinted red. The world spun around me, and I fell to my knees on the stone terrace, completely out of breath.
"Kael!" Charis's voice cut through the haze in my mind.
She came running out of the house, with Slater and Rhett right behind her. The moment I saw her, something inside me broke. I grabbed her shoulders and buried my face against her arms, gasping and shaking.
"What happened?" Charis demanded, looking between me and Isolde. "What did you do to him?"
Isolde looked genuinely confused. "We were just talking, and I touched his shoulder. Then he seemed to get lost for a moment and suddenly started gasping for air like this."
Slater knelt beside me, his face worried. "Kael, can you walk?"
