A Familiar Face

[Fineon’s POV]

The world around me faded in and out, giving me only tiny glimpses of the fighting that was going on around me. From what I heard in between waves of agonizing pain, it sounded like the two were handling the threat well.

"Great," I sigh, letting myself get sucked under again.

When I come to next, I can feel myself being lifted by Elleric and Cyrus while more footsteps begin to sound around us.

"What’s the order, my lord?"

"What happened?"

"How could this be so close to home?"

"None of that matters," Elleric snaps. "Fan out and find my niece!"

Find his niece... The words slice like a knife. If I wasn’t mistaken earlier, Fallon was gone, and I knew that Parker was the one who had taken her.

"Gl…acies…" I try, only to find that my voice is so weak that I’m not sure if I’m heard. "Pa…"

"Yes sir."

"On it."

In the midst of the voices taking Elleric’s order, I know that mine is lost, and despite knowing I needed to repeat myself, I find that the overwhelming weakness and pain