An enormous crack splintered across our shield, Moraine gasping as she felt the moment of its demise closing in on us beneath his furious assault, and for the first time in as long as I could remember, fear found me in battle. Not for my own death but for the death of the two women who shared my soul and who deserved so much more than this from life. A hand grasped mine in that final moment, unfamiliar power rushing towards me on a wave of ferocious magic. I opened the floodgates to my own magic automatically, a tide of raw and foreign power slamming into me and stealing the breath from my
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