Valkyrie Black

Chapter 52: Doubts

“Is she going to survive this?” Alexa asked Desmond, panic overtaking her reason.

“She was prepared to go back in both times so far right?” Desmond asked skeptically.

“I mean, she ate, drank and went to the bathroom. She didn’t say much. But there was such a haunted look in her eyes. She was barely awake more than an hour,” Alexa said, looking back at her friend, where she still lay on the bed.

Val’s skin crawled as tiny metal tendrils snaked beneath her skin. Alexa had screamed and run for Mr. Nyx and Desmond when she had first witnessed it. Sure, she had seen Val heal herself but it had never been so violent as this. Val’s bones cracked, and her left femur had broken the skin. By the time they got back though, Alexa had to do a double take because the wound was completely healed.

“I swear it was poking out of her skin!” she remembered swearing to both men. They had stared at her funny until Val’s collarbone snapped right in front of them.

Desmond had checked the wound, “Its as i