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I don’t care that you’re not real.
I’m going to tell you what I should’ve said before.
The image hovered over the tower now. Baine unsheathed two swords, face taught with anger and then he leapt from the back of the bird to fall behind Kelia. Another ash raptor shrieked in the sky, this one bringing someone I did not expect, even if I was hallucinating.
Calvin?
My brother jumped off the back of the raptor, turning into flames before he landed.
The crone hissed and launched forward. Kelia swung around, blue magic pouring from out of her hands. Baine disappeared, too quick for me to follow. Kelia and the crone turned their attention to the firestorm heading toward them.
Baine appeared in front of me, those hypnotic lavender eyes dragging me out of the nightmare.
“You can’t be real,” I said, my mind struggling to believe what my eyes could see.
“I am.” He pressed his mouth to mine, fast and fierce, awakening my flame which burned through the fog in my mind.
“You came for me?”
Grabbing the chain between the handcuffs, he yanked it apart, setting me free. “I willalwayscome for you.”
Before I could comprehend the situation, something looped around Baine’s neck and yanked him on to his back. Kelia dragged Baine across the stone.
“No!” I ran forward, begging my flame to spark but whatever tonic they had given me kept my magic shackled. “Please, stop!”
Baine flipped over, the noose tightening around his neck. He sliced one of his swords across Kelia’s calves, but the metal hit an invisible barrier. “There’s another way!”
“What are you talking about?” Kelia twisted her arm, flipping Baine forward and raising him to his knees.
Slipping his fingers under the magical noose, he eyed Kelia. “Rosalie and her twin can power the barrier.”
Kelia glanced over at my brother who was unrecognizable under the flames. The crone launched at him, Calvin’s flames not burning a single feather. “Being able to wield fire does not make one powerful.”
“No,” he coughed and stood, glaring at Kelia. “But being half elemental does.”
“Impossible.”
“It’s true!” I ran in front of Baine, holding out my arms. “No one else knows but our parents. My father was an elemental. He swore us to secrecy.”
Baine coughed and gasped behind me.
“Please,” I begged, falling to my knees. “Don’t kill him. I’ll do whatever you want. I’ll stay in Farrow’s Gate. We’ll help. You said the magi didn’t like this plan anyway.”
“Baine! I could use some help over here!” my brother yelled, the flames making him indistinguishable. The crone grabbed his shirt and threw him into one of the spires, cracking the stone. My brother’s flames spouted out and he went silent.
I couldn’t lose the two most important people in my life.
“Kelia. Give us a chance, please,” I begged.
She stepped back and released her magic. “You will have your chance.”
With a relieved smile I turned around.
Baine’s eyes widened in shock and his hand went to his stomach.
The crone cackled. “You will all die herreeeee.”
Blood coated the crone’s talons and it screeched as Baine fell forward into me.
