“My shadows you saw in the alley? They kind of… I don’t know, consumed her.” They shouldn’t have. It wasn’t how my nier worked, how any sídhe magic worked. Even fifty years later I could still feel the strange effect of that spell. The way my shadows always hung in the distance like hungry beasts ready to attack. I didn’t control them now, not the way I used to be able to. Now I simply… managed them. Held them back when they grew too wild.
