She frowned at him before turning to Kaylia.It wasn’t the time for this when Kaylia could have the answers theysought.
“Do you know anything more about the ShadowReaver?” Lexi asked.
“That is all I know,” she said. “But there isalso a prophecy about the Reaver.”
“Prophecies are garbage,” Cole retorted.
“Normally, I agree, but the first half ofthis one seems to have already come true,” Brokk said.
“What is it?” Lexi asked, but she reallydidn’t want to know.
“When the last light blooms, the ShadowReaver shall rise,” Kaylia said. “When the last light falls, theShadow Reaver will destroy us all. I believe Lexi is thatlight.”
“It would seem so,” Cole replied with anindifference that mystified Lexi.
Why is he not more concerned about this?
“But since I intend to make sure nothinghappens to Lexi, then we have nothing to worry about,” Colereplied. “Do you know where this prophecy came from or whopredicted it?”
“No,” Kaylia admitted.
“It was probably something started as a wayto scare children or someone else into behaving, like so many ofthem are.”
“True,” Brokk said.
“Have you always been able to control theshadows like this?” Kaylia asked.
“No,” Cole replied. “The trials made mestronger.”
But is that for the better?Lexi hatedthe doubt churning inside her, but she couldn’t shake it.
“Now, we have more important things, such asyou,to discuss,” he said to Kaylia.
Lexi swallowed back the knot in her throatand decided if this Shadow Reaver revelation wasn’t bothering Cole,then she wouldn’t let it botherhereither. That would beeasier said than done, but she couldn’t do anything about itnow.
“I have to learn control,” Lexi said to Cole.“And Kaylia can help me with that.”
“So can I,” he said.
“The arach magic isn’t like fae magic,”Kaylia said.
“And it’s like the witches’?” Coleinquired.
“It’s unlike any other immortals who everexisted; that’s what made the arach unique. It’s what makes usallunique, but I know I can help with this.”
“I think we should give her a chance,” Varosaid. “She’s the only one here who has ever known an arach, and oneof them trusted her enough to put a powerful arach possession intoher hands.”
Lexi’s tension eased as he spoke, and thoughhe didn’t smile, his nearly white-blue eyes shone with warmth.She’d never known him before the war, but she could tell he was fartoo thin. She wasn’t sure he’d earned his skeletal frame during thewar, but she suspected he did.
His face was gaunt, and his cheekbones stoodout against his pale skin. Dark shadows circled his eyes, and along nap would do him some good, but strength radiated from him ashe gazed at Kaylia.
“I believe she’s trustworthy,” Varocontinued.
“Why?” Cole demanded.
“I just do.”
“I think we should trust Varo’s judgment,”Brokk said. When Cole looked at him, Brokk elaborated. “He survivedthe war somehow.”
