Mildred had her eyes closed, holding J.B. by the hand. The Armorer seemed to have gone, but he sensed Ryan looking at him and opened one eye in a reassuring wink.
“See you soon, lover,” Krysty whispered, her voice muffled and echoing into Ryan’s mind from a vast distance.
“Yeah, see you…” he tried to reply, but the effort of speech was enormous.
The maroon walls of the chamber were receding from him at an alarming rate.
The darkness came, and Ryan Cawdor closed his eye.