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I blink as my hand finds my mouth.
“She’s alive?” I ask. “Tell me she’s still alive.”
“Of course she’s alive. I am speaking through her, am I not?”
I breathe out a sigh of relief, dread at what I’ve just done threatening to turn my gut inside out.
But my relief is short-lived, because the boiling anger in the Old Magic’s voice goes stiff. Cold.
A passing breeze lifts the hair on the back of my neck.
“You spoke as if you know the stories. As if you know all about me. My origins.”
My blood runs cold.
“But if you know so much about me, you must have known this is not the first occasion on which I’ve been manipulated into altering the Rip against my will.”
“I’ll help you close it back,” I whisper. “I promise. Please, I just wanted Nox back.”
Nox, who is back. Nox, who held my face just now. Nox, who is probably out in the woods somewhere, writhing in pain as he tries to control his bloodlust for Asha.
“Lies,” says the Old Magic. “I’ve heard an assortment of them before.”
I shake my head. “Not a lie. I promise to help fix it.”
“You hurt Asha.”
“I know,” I say. “I know, and I’m sorry, but I won’t hurt her again. I just wanted Nox back.”
“Yes, you keep saying that.”
My heart patters to a stop, then skips.
“I did as you asked, young one. I separated your lover and the evil rot who should have been left in the ashes.”
“And I’ll never forget what you did for me.”
“No. No, I don’t believe you shall.”
“Please, just tell me how I can fix it.”
“I’m afraid there is no fixing it. Just like there was no fixing Farin. His death came swiftly after I cursed him. Are you aware of the stories? Did you know it was I who cursed the fae with the inability to lie?”
My mind is swimming, still numb with bloodlust.
“What is it you’ve cursed me with?” I dare to ask.
For a moment, I don’t believe the Old Magic will answer.
But then.
“My dear, why do you assume it’s you I’ve chosen to curse?”
CHAPTER 44
ASHA
When I open my eye again, Blaise is gone.
