C70 Find Jake!

I couldn’t feel my hands. My knees pressed hard into the stone floor, but even that pain didn’t register. Everything inside me was numb. Empty!

The hall was a blur of faces, warriors, elders, children pressed close to their mothers, they all staring. Not at me. At the altar. At the place where Jake should have been.

And he wasn’t.

My breath came in broken pulls, sharp and shallow