Whumptober: Day 31
When he saw her there, alive, he couldn’t stop it from coming out.
“By the Alchemy, I was terrified you were killed by a rock lion. Or a sand sharks. Or Balthazar’s army got you in some way. Or the dragon!”
He was trembling, all of his fears and anxieties tumbling out because of her. He felt like an idiot, giving into all the fear over logic that she would take care of herself.
But remembering all of their history together fueled it. Oh, he loved her so much.
“You could have been killed and turned into Awakened! I heard about all of the Inquest down there. Even Pixi’s crazy ex-boyfriend got changed!”
She came closer to him, her eyes narrowed as they bore into his.
He half expected her smack him over the head and tell him to shut up and calm down for once in his life.
Instead, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down towards her, pressing her face into his neck. Without a second of hesitation, he wrapped his arms around her.
“I’m sorry for frightening you, Rachytt,” she murmured in his embrace.
He hugged her tighter with a crack of a smile, “Hey, were you being the stupid one this time, Phin?”
She gently smacked him in the back of his head.
He let a wide smile etch itself onto his face. With her in his arms and face in the crook of his neck, relief flooded his bones.
She was okay.















