Chapter 10: Narrow Escape
Eirin’s eyes started getting blurry and she could feel herself slowly losing it. The only thing clear was Shade’s crimson-red eyes staring right through her as he lifts her.
’I’m going to die.’
Her struggle stopped as she could feel herself floating in the air and having no foothold left. Eirin lost her grip on Shade’s arm and her eyelids slowly closed.
"Are you out of your mind?"
Eirin coughed so hard and wheezed the moment she got out of Shade’s grip and fell to the ground. Her body felt paralyzed and she could not move as she stayed lying on the ground chasing her breath. The only thing she could see was Shade pinned to the wall with ice-like shackles.
"What were you up to, Shade Cromwell?" Eirin’s eyes landed on Cali who was standing in front of her with her arm smoking and covered in ice.
The moment Cali looked in Eirin’s direction, the cold breeze created by the ice that appeared caused Cali’s black hair to flutter. Showing her blonde under hair highlights glowing. "Can you stand?" she reached out her hand to Eirin, but the teenage girl was too weak to even raise her arm.
"Have your head cooled down now, Cromwell?" Cali turned to Shade, who has his head down. "Seems like it," she said after not hearing a response, she then faced Eirin, who was too terrified after what happened.
Cali reached out her hand to Eirin, but the teenage girl was still too shocked to react. And so Cali’s freezing hand grabbed Eirin’s and pulled her up, but her legs were wobbly, and Cali immediately caught her before she could fall.
"I’ll carry you."
Judging by Cali’s appearance, Eirin stared at her in disbelief. "I-I don’t think you can," she said in a raspy and low voice. Her throat must have hurt so much after being choked almost to death.