The Fourth Life She Guarded Me Chapter 12
“You think I only eat your life force? I eat other things, too, but they aren’t as effective.”
“…Sounds like I’m pretty special.”
“Drop the tone. If you hadn’t signed a heartbond with me, do you think your pitiful amount of life force could ever fill me up?”
“…”
No matter what, I had at least won myself half an hour a day.
I seized the time to meditate.
To speed things up, I went to the water prison.
The water there wasn’t ordinary; it was from the River Styx, and it slowly abraded the soul.
Meditating while resisting it made training much faster.
I had discovered that method by accident in a previous life.
And Paloma, when she said half an hour, meant half an hour.
Not one minute more.
The moment my time was up, she kicked open the door to the water prison and walked right in.
The water of the Styx had no effect on her. She stepped into the pool and strode toward me.
“Time’s up, Meredith. I’m hungry.”
Then she bent down and scooped me into her arms.