Light (Gone, #6)

by Michael Grant

She waited until he had absorbed all of that before telling him the last fact. “Sam. Brianna is dead.” He just stared at her. Then, in a soft, almost childlike voice, he said, “Breeze?” “She stopped Gaia. It looked like Brianna almost killed her. The second time she . . . But this time . . .” There were tears in Sam’s eyes. “My God. How is Dekka?” “Like you’d expect. Destroyed. Roger’s dead, too, so Edilio . . . It’s been really bad, Sam. Really bad. It’s like we’re in a war.” “We are,” he said. “I don’t understand why Gaia didn’t kill me.” Astrid said nothing. Lana came over then, so Sam didn’t notice Astrid’s silence. “How do you feel, Sam?” “Better than I should,” he said. Then: “I know you did all you could for Breeze.” Lana shook her head. “I never had the chance to. The gaiaphage hit her point-blank through the heart with your light. Burned a hole six inches across. That’s not something I can heal.” “What do you mean, my light?” Sam asked. Astrid shot a dirty look at Lana, but it was too late. Sam wasn’t going to be put off. “You need to tell him,” Lana said. Her voice wasn’t unkind, but it was uncompromising. Astrid said, “It seems Gaia has some connection to your power. There’s a . . . I don’t know what to call it . . . no one knows what to call it, because it doesn’t exist in the world out there . . .” She was stalling. He saw it. So Astrid said, “Diana says Gaia let you and Caine live because if you die you take the power with you.” Sam’s face turned to stone, co...