Allowing my magic to touch me, feeling it upon my skin, I realized why it had always felt so hollow. It was abandoned. Forgotten. Feared. When all it wanted was love. But how could I have loved it when I, myself, didn’t understand what that love meant? It hadn’t been until Caldris made me see. Until Fallon stood by me and made a vow to protect one another. Until Imelda confessed the truth of my brother, of her place in my life, and witnessing the way she loved Fallon with everything she had … and feeling that love extend to me.
