chapter 75

DIMITRI

My mind checks out of what Zarek is rambling beside me the moment my eyes finds Lynexia from across the road, seated in the passenger's seat of my car.

The state I find Lynexia when I arrived here was a devastating one and it breaks something inside of me. Watching her break down in my arms is like ripping out my skin. The guilt of bringing her into all this rests like a heavy weight over my shoulder. I more than regret thrusting her into all this.

The deaths are taking a toll on her and even though I tell her severally that it isn't her fault, she seems to believe otherwise, thinking it is her burden to bear. Also having a vision about them earlier before the actual incident takes place worsens everything. It makes it easier for her to fall into the vicious cycle of blaming herself anytime a death is recorded.

The killings is also driving me crazy. With the barbarians, it was easy to formula strategies against them because they were the obvious enemy but the killer r