Chapter 69

Caressing her glazen cheek, smeared here and there with dirt and dust I speak to her, "Fawn…I'm so sorry…I…I should have stayed back with you, I shouldn't have left you, forced you to come running after me. I should've just faced it…I shouldn't have run away from…from us. And now I want us more than anything and I'm so sorry I-"

A soft, thrilling sound resonates across the sky, the chopper has long since landed at a free patch of land to receive Link and Rey so it can't be that. The Lieutenant hears it too, his head turning about, searching the sky for what's certainly headed our way.

And as Cleo drags Vertigo by his feet he laughs, chortling a heavy laugh at the sound and at us, "Looks like I'll be living to see another day! Hahahhaha! I'll see you soon boy!" He screams pointing at me.

Frasier snaps at Cleo, "Prepare a shield, now!"