For a few moments she waited tensely for Ryder to charge in at Alex. She was weak but Ashe would never let him face that man alone, not after what he’d done to them. Ryder wouldn’t stand a chance alone. However she began to wonder if she would either. When the fog began rolling in and spells began flying Ashe looked around in confusion as Ryder took her under his arm and began leading her into the forest. Looking up at him she could see, and feel how tired he was and the girl did her best to support him before she saw Isabel and Blake up ahead.

Looking over to Ryder she wondered if this had been his plan. If he had known they were coming. They moved as far away from the scene as possible before Ashe felt Ryder faulting, or maybe it was her. That was a big possibility. “Stop. We need to stop!” She called out to the others, who were a bit of a way ahead of them. “Please?” She lowered Ryder to the ground before sinking down next to him, breathing heavily as she turned into him, closing her eyes as she felt tears welling up in her eyes.

“I thought I’d lost you.” She said softly, trying to keep her body from shaking too much. It was a combination of the exhaustion and the realisation that she had lost him at one point. In her mind she had been dead and she had lost any will to live. She had almost killed herself on him. Ashe tried not to imagine how angry Ryder would have been if he’d found out that. Ashe made a small vow to herself that even if anything ever did happen to Ryder, if he should ever leave her she couldn’t give up again. He wouldn’t want it that way. She’d fight, even if she lost a lot of her reason to.