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“You’re a fucking terror, Skylenna,” Runa utters next to me.
I glance at her, though my vision goes fuzzy around the edges, and I lose my breath.
“She really is.” Dessin stands to my left with crossed arms and a look of astonishment as he pairs me to the scene of flesh-eating guards ripping Malcolm and Maxwell to shreds.
“Dessin,” I croak thickly. My body fills with ice as I gaze up at him and lose stability in my legs. With bloodstained arms, he folds around me, scooping me against his bare chest.
“What’s happening?” he asks.
“She gets hypothermia when she controls someone from the void,” Marilynn answers.
Dessin uses a hand to lift my chin. Dark-mahogany eyes dart back and forth between my two eyes as he searches for a solution.
“Why haven’t they stopped?” I whisper hoarsely.
“Who?”
“The war. I’ve destroyed their leaders. Why hasn’t the war ended?”
He looks around, clutching me closer as he realizes the violence is its own entity. There is no stopping it or slowing it down.
“They’ve been brainwashed since they were young, Skylenna. I don’t think they’d stop until their hearts no longer beat.”
But I’ve killed their leaders…
I stare off into the distance at our armies defending DaiSzek lying on the ground, breathing shallowly with spears sticking out of his back like a porcupine. Niles and Ruth snuggle against him in tears as the war goes on.
“It was supposed to end…” I mutter against Dessin’s hot chest.
“I know.”
“I’m so cold.”
“I know that, too, Skylittle.”
My glistening gaze shoots up to those chocolate eyes softening around the edges. Kane looks down at me with both anxiety and confusion twisting his features.
“Whyhow are you here?!”
His Adam’s apple stretches the length of his throat. He shakes his head, looks around, and holds me tighter to his chest as if he’s trying to summon the answer to that question as well.
“You needed me.”
I nod with my vision blurring from the river of tears. “Yes.”
I blink in surprise as Kaspias appears in front of me. He’s surrounded by a soft, glowing light. One of warmth and eternal love that can only be described as something holy. And holding his hand is my Scarlett.
“He’s right, Skylenna. You need him.” Kaspias steps closer, though no one sees him. “It’s always been there; don’t you see it? You’ve both been preparing for this day since you were children.”
What are you talking about?
“God gave you two a place that you’d need one day. One that you two grew to know as home,” Scarlett says.
I close my eyes, needing no time to search for the answer they’ve given me.
Ambrose Oasis blossoms in my vision with a light so luminous, it should blind me. The swaying purple wisteria. The meadow of long, luscious grass and calming lavender dancing in the wind.
“They were all children once, just like me.” Kaspias reaches for my hand. It’s no longer covered in scars and burn marks. “You are warrior angels sent by God himself with the power to reverse the trauma and evil done to them.”
