“Like this, see? Even with you fighting back…you’ll be unconscious in thirty seconds. Within another minute, you’d be dead. Just like Tamsyn Penhaligon.” She’s going to kill me. The thought flares in my mind, red and lethal. Tears leak from my eyes, hot on my cheeks. I taste copper. Only then Ellis lets go. Color blooms back into the world, and I stagger. I would fall to my knees if not for the way Ellis catches me with an arm around my waist.
