I acted quickly, plucking up a small kernel of the energy I had discovered, and I pushed it up, past my bond with Fisher, past the empty reserve where my magic should have been, into my body, into the raw Alchimeran shield that was smoking on the back of my hand… and then into the little white fox. The world trembled in response, a shock wave rocking the snowy slope, and out of nowhere a grim white dawn broke over the sawtoothed mountain range of Ajun, casting back the dark.
