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I didn’t even need words as I raged pure, icy magic at the gobbelins, and their blood froze solid.
One by one, they went rigid and fell, their bodies clanking to the ground before I smashed them all to shards of tinkling ice with one of their clubs.
The world grew quiet and still, like the forest after a snowstorm.
The gobbelins were all gone. The mist rolled in and took Kassian.
And then the real darkness came for me.
Khione...it whispered, cold and hard in my empty, midnight mind.
Khione... welcome home.
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
KANA
At first, I thought I was back in the mist.
That maybe something had happened, and I was dead for real this time.
But the fog around me wasn’t the iron gray of the mist that held my ancestors and stalked my city. It was icy blue, lighter than steam but colder than a winter’s wind as it caressed my ankles.
I looked down, surprised to see my ragged, torn clothing had vanished. I walked naked through the strange fog, feeling only a whisper of my feet along the ground.
Every step cleansed and calmed me, erasing the memories of what had brought me here. Leaving only the peace of soundless walking.
A voice called my name again - except it wasn’t my name.
Khione...
My heart recognized it, thumping like a warrior’s fist on her chest before battle.
My memory recognized it too, from the lips of an ice wolf. Then the memory faded, and I couldn’t remember where I’d heard the name before.
“There is more to your story,” a woman’s voice said, and I whirled, finding nothing.
