After the Sacred Whale Betrayed Me, I Contracted Poseidon novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Sixty-Eight
"Don't get up," said Ilsa.
"I wasn't going to," Caldrion said pleasantly.
"I find I am rather tired."
The pearl turned over in his grey fingers.
Past him, at the back of the cavern, a net of black kelp hung from the roof.
Tuva hung in it.
Her face was the color of candle wax, and her pale braid floated loose around her head.
Her eyes were open but they did not see anything.
On her left wrist, her contract mark glowed a weak, flickering white.
Ilsa saw a thread of light run from it, through the water, into Caldrion's chest.
"Let her go," she said.
"She is my mage," said Caldrion.
"She signed for me in her own blood."
"I cannot let her go any more than a man can let go of his lungs."
His eyes slid to Oren, and his smile thinned.
"You are looking well, Emperor."
"I have been better," said Oren.
"I have also been worse, and you were there for that too."
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