Afghan glanced over, the faint smile on his face deeply welcome after two painful centuries when Ilium hadn't been able to reach his friend, no matter how hard he tried. Afghan's psychic scars might never fade, but he was rising past them in a show of grit and strength no one who didn't know him could fully understand. The twenty-three months Afghan had been missing had been the most horrific period of Ilium's life... worse than when he'd lost his mortal lover. He'd survived losing her. He didn't know if he could survive losing Afghan. Never before had he seen that truth so clearly and it shook him.

Archangel's Enigma