Chapter 359: Rematch
For a long second, the only thing Olive could do was stare. Her brain wasn’t processing the information her eyes were feeding it. She couldn’t even tell what to think. Dozens of different thoughts and emotions had entered a full scale war within her head.
Surprise. Disbelief. Relief. Olive barely had an instant to process one before the next one rose up in its place, shoving the first out of the way only to be knocked from its throne moments later.
Her heart pounded in her chest.
Why are they here? Part of me thought they’d died. I didn’t hear anything from them after I lost my arm. They didn’t even try to contact me? I guess they had no reason to. But… here? Now, of all times?
Elias’ hand slammed down on her shoulder. Olive stiffened, jerked from her thoughts, and spun to him.
“What’s wrong?” Elias demanded. “You’re staring into space. Snap out of it. We’re in the middle of a damn battlefield.”
“I — sorry.” Olive swallowed and shook her head, but that did nothing to clear it. Her thoughts were a complete mess. “There’s someone. People. That team.”
“What?” Elias’ eyes narrowed. “Focus. Speak clearly. The other teams are too scared of us to approach right now, but that isn’t going to last if you look like a beached fish.”
Olive bit the inside of her cheek. The taste of iron washed across her tongue and she clenched her hands into fists.