“Let me go! They must pay!” Gwladys said with hatred and rage in her voice.
Tommi said, “It's not their fault, they were in rut, they could barely control themselves. Angaros knew what would happen, but he went outside anyway. If it's any consolation, Angaros and the ape saved one of the females from the red monster.”
Gwladys struggled to break free of the grasp of Perseus and Gertrude, but they held her fast. …show more content…
Where is Red?” Gwladys said. “This is all his fault, let me go so I can kill him!”
Tommi said, “Dead at Angaros' hand.”
Gwladys took a deep breath and said, “At least he had that satisfaction, before he..., before he...” Gwladys couldn't make herself say it, she couldn't say died, to say it, would make it true.
“You're Gwladys, aren't you?” Tommi asked.
Gwladys nodded and the tears began to roll from her eyes.
“His last thoughts and words were of you, he loved you very much.”
Gwladys dropped her and fell to her knees, Gertrude and Perseus released her arms and Gwladys put her head down and sobbed uncontrollably into the grass. Gertrude knelt down beside her and put her arm around her shoulder. Gwladys stiffened and pulled her head up, then she cried into Gertrude's shoulder.
Gertrude was in misery herself, while she understood that Gwladys' misery was infinitely worse than her own, she worried about what had happened to Neph. When she could stand it no longer she asked the question that she dreaded the answer