Sun Mote Copse Make it a point to tell me when you get to the end

He might not have known what to say, yet there were no words that could help her plight anyway. He held her, which was all Wildfire could ask for in this dreadful moment. She clung to him shamelessly, trembling, a lump forming in her already aching throat when Eljay mentioned the caldera. Wildfire realized abruptly that she may never get to go on that trip they'd planned. She felt as if the bottom was dropping out of her world as she struggled to suck in shallow breaths.

It would be some time yet before Wildfire realized she was actually past the point of no return and acknowledge the end of her days and just how much unfinished business she would leave behind. For now, she just clutched Eljay all the tighter and began to cry, stripped bare and utterly vulnerable in the safe circle of her mate's arms.