Not Waiting Any Longer

Desmond's life crumbled in his hands as Eve disintegrated into nothingness. 

His ruby eye stared in horror at what was left of his wife's familiar and he began trembling. 

Quinn's familiar, Sterling, started to shriek loudly as if it knew something terrible had just happened. Even though it was a creature made entirely of mana, it knew Eve well. 

He had the horrific thought that Eve was gone forever. There was no way for someone who wasn't a mage to know whether or not that was the truth. 

However, that wasn't his focus. 

To him, Eve was Leonor. The state of Eve was a direct correlation to the state of Leonor. He knew immediately that something horrible had happened and he had no one to commiserate with or validate his paranoias with. 

He was risking the lives of Quinn and Cian by going to Leonor and he knew how selfish he was for doing that but she was everything to him. He wouldn't be able to go forward if it weren't with her.