Darius only hesitated a moment longer before nodding, clapping his hand into mine. We both dropped the barriers on our magic, and I inhaled sharply at the assault of his power as it wound its way beneath my flesh, forming a tide with my own magic so that the two washed back and forth between us. We were evenly matched, but the heat of his fire magic flared beneath my flesh as my air power swept beneath his. Our water magic met and swelled, the power of it blooming as it joined for a little while. Caleb reached out and clasped his hand over ours from the left while Seth gripped us from the
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