372 - "JORAS! RUN!"

My hand flew up toward the dart to pull it out but began slowing down around waist height. Joras stopped where he stood in front of me.  I found myself staring at one plait of his braided hair, the shine of the moonlight on it.  I hadn't fallen.  I stood, like a stump in the middle of the road.A word drifted up into my mind like a bubble rising up through oil. It popped through the skin that