Chapter 52:

CASSIAN'S POV Lucian? My eyes must be playing tricks on me! How is he here! How is this happening? Everything swirled around me, I struggled to keep my eyes open, to stop my eye lids from closing by themselves. Keeping my breathing steady felt like hard labor. With every second that passed, I felt weaker and weaker until I could no longer stop the impending oblivion from taking me, until I could no longer keep myself conscious. I felt Rhea move out of my grasp. Her face appeared as a distorted vision to me, she faced me, her face looked wavy. I tried to focus but even that felt like a very impossible task. “Cassian, what is wrong? Cassian!” I heard her yell before the darkness took me and a limbo of blank nothingness was formed. RHEA'S POV “Do something! Save him!” I yelled at Lucian who just stood there saying and doing nothing with his hands shoved into his pocket like as if he was a model posing for a shoot. His face looked weary, alert like he was thinking about something rea