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The flash of light that corresponded with my roar of frustration nearly blinded me.
“Ainsley!” Killian shouted.
I tried to look up and meet his gaze, but I could see nothing but blinding white. “Killian!” I cried out. “It is not me!”
“Ainsley!” he shouted again, this time more frantically.
Why could I not hear Silverthorne?Where was he?
“There is so much that you do not yet understand, my darling.” A voice sounded from somewhere within the light. I brought a hand up, attempting to shield my eyes from the radiant beams seeming to be everywhere.
“Silverthorne?” I called for him once more. When there was no answer, the panic welling from my gut threatened to explode. The familiar surge throughout my body warned that my emotions were coming to the surface, and with it, bringing my magic to the forefront. “Dad!” I tried again, almost desperately this time.
The light dimmed but only enough for me to make out a petite figure: a woman standing with my father, touching his shoulder.
“I will not leave her alone again.” I heard Silverthorne say.
“No!” I shouted toward the light, reaching out my hand.
“It has to be this way,” the woman said. “You have so much left to learn, my girl. We will be with you soon. Hold on, dearest Ainsley.”
The light grew brighter, and the figure held her hands out toward me. “I am sorry, my darling.”
And then in a wisp of light, the strange, yet somehow familiar woman, disappeared with my father.
A flash of what appeared like magic, darted away from them as they vanished. And it headed straight for me.
I shrieked as the orb crashed directly into my body.
“Ainsley!” Killian’s scream barely penetrated my ears. He was there, somewhere. Moving closer, I believed. I fell to my knees, clutching my stomach, as a fire unlike any I had ever felt before, burned within me, growing hotter and stronger.
I fell forward, bracing my hands on the ground, and peered back in the direction of the edge of the cliff where my father had been standing.
Killian’s arms were around me in an instant, holding me from behind, as I began to fall even further.
Reaching my hand out toward the now-empty space, I cried through the pain in my gut, “Mother?”
