“The whole light and dark thing. This is how the world ends. Samkiel told me about the shuddering crack and all that. How it referred to Gabby.” Reggie’s eyes grew forlorn. “I never said that prophecy was about your sister.” “Oh,” I said, staring dumbly at him through my swollen eyes. “Wait? Then what is it about?” Reggie looked at me, then at the ghost trapped with us. But it was not Reggie who spoke, but Unir. “If Samkiel does not make it in time, if Nismera succeeds, it will mean the end of not just worlds but of everything. That has and will always be his destiny.”

