a new chapter. Chapter 10
Case Study of the Trailblazer — Stelle
“No, no —” As if he was breaking out of a water surface, a loud gasp dropped from his lips as Dan Heng shot forward. “— Stelle !” now, sitting upright on the chair with a hand stretched out before him.
Jade blue eyes were wide and fearful while he sat there blinking at his outstretched arm in confusion and panic, his rapidly rising and falling chest puffing out agitated breaths.
Incoherent thoughts muddled by the mental fog caused in his restless sleep took a long second to clear up. Dan Heng then finally lowered his arm, letting it fall away in his understanding, realizing he was simply dreaming again.
The same dream that haunted him ever since they landed on Amphoreus.
Traces of emotional trauma still lingering from the dream followed in his eyes as he raised them, glancing over to the lounge chair next to his.
To the woman on it….
Dan Heng noted, tension in his gaze softened by relief.
…who laid on her side, snoring lightly against the sprawl of her long, gray hair messily tossed over her headrest.
Stelle is fine, Dan Heng told himself with a nod to himself as he placed a hand over his still racing heart. They are safe now.
Memory of his healing attempt using his imbibitor powers on the broken car they had left behind at the abandoned temple, the thought of the Stellaron within Stelle’s body and the fact that Stelle was snoring away on the chair beside his right now reassured him one thing.
—that Stelle was not dead.
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