The entire balance of the world had just changed. She saw the forces reversing in her mind. For so long she’d been fighting a mad, hopeless, desperate war. And now it looked so very, very winnable. Ever so faintly in the back of her mind, though muted and strained by the spiritual back door that ran through Kitay’s mind, she heard the Phoenix laughing, too—the low, harsh cackle of a deity who had finally gotten everything it had wanted.
