Dufay said, “And if the darkness is coming for you?” “You mean this wasn’t it?” said Violet. Edwin was unshaken. “Then we will need our own stars to see by. You told us that and we didn’t listen.” He took a breath. With his thin pallor and his own blue eyes he looked, fleetingly, far closer to a relation of Dufay than Jack ever had. He looked halfway fae himself. Edwin said, “We, the magicians of this land, accept only the wages of the dusk. Everyone bears their own cost.”
