Andrew's POV

She failed to wake up.

Three days. Seventy-two hours spent observing her chest heave and sink, tracking her heartbeat, sensing the connection grow delicate and tenuous between us.

Martha guaranteed me she was recovering. She said that harnessing such an amount of Ancient power would have been fatal to an ordinary individual yet Elena's body was adapting, balancing and regenerating itself from within.

However, "adjusting" failed to clarify the reason behind her temperature ...