“Over a thousand years,” Lance murmured, still staring at Gwen like the world began and ended with her. My eyes fell on Roxy and my heart thumped to a different tune. It wasn’t true, it couldn’t be. Phoenixes were practically a myth. No one was even sure they really had existed. They were supposed to have been the most powerful Order of all, their flames capable of all kinds of insane things. Some people even claimed they’d been immortal but if that was the case then where were they? How did a species die off if they couldn’t die? “They can’t be,” I said. “We are,” both girls replied at the
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