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My heart turned to steel as I imagined Tavion and Tristan and Adele. The sacrifices they’d made. The ones I knew about…and those I did not.
I would fight for that love. That future.
I would honor their sacrifices.
Until I had no more magic to wield.
My half-frozen body was a lethargic mess, but the magic…As long as there was a spark of life in my brain, I could command the power to do whatever I wanted.
I pushed magic out of me in an explosion of star-drenched light that undulated across the floor in a tsunami of power that lit up the dark with the power of a nebula.
The brilliance was so bright I closed my eyes, heat searing my face, but the last thing I saw was Corvus scrambling to get away.
I wanted him to burn.
And when the wave devoured him, he knew it, too.
54
ANARIA
Iwas expending magic so fast my feet rose off the freezing stone, my body as weightless as the wind.
The closest to flying as I would ever get, the magic buoying me as power roared and roared out of me with unfathomable force toward the hideous creature, white flames licking his body with voracious splendor.
My power was different here.
This place made it different.
The erupting light that filled every crevice and crack of this place revealed what I’d known in my bones to be true the moment I’d landed here.
Thiswasthe rocky outcropping from my vision. The last stand against the Fae armies where my ancestor had died. Where all our ancestors had died.
I didn’t know how those skulls made it into the tunnels…I didn’t care.
Star-flecked power stripped away the protective shadows curling around Corvus, unveiling the shattered outcropping behind him, the mountains outlined by a dark night sky. The floor beneath me pulsed with power, giving and giving, feeding magic into me as if the world knew one of us would be its savior and one its downfall, and had made its choice.
I’ve made my choice, too,I sang to the world, the stars, the stone.
I will protect you with everything I have.Together, we will rid this world of the blight that has poisoned us all for so very long. A new world, filled with dreams and promises and life.
No more wars. No more death.
Help me, and that is my promise to you.
My frozen body turned to heated steel, channeling magic from ground to flesh to air, straight into Corvus’s writhing shadows. Until they began to shred and thin, until his roars of pain shook stones from the ceiling. They shattered around me, sending glittering shards across the floor.
One of them knocked me out of the air, and I hit the ground so hard everything went black, and in those precious lost seconds, my magic stopped.
I climbed to my feet and dodged left to avoid the crashing rocks, then right, until I could scarcely keep my footing.
A lash of shadow whipped out, slashing across my shins, cutting deep, blood coating my legs, my feet. The cuts went numb, some putrid stench bubbling up from them. Poison of some kind. A death blow raced towards my throat, parried at the last second by a hastily conjured blast of starlight.
But I was on my feet. And I wouldn’t stop fighting.
Black shadow and white light crashed, ringing against the cavernous walls as I advanced step by painful step, forcing him toward that drop-off.
I remembered that endless fall from the vision. The sharp rocks at the bottom.
