Bab 140: A Terrible Premonition

DESI

I didn’t know if Fiahre heard him, or if she knew intuitively, but she threw her arms back and I burst away from her, Becoming and taking to the sky in a flash of golden light and black shadow. I followed my heart across the battlefield, where the survivors crouched together, tending to their wounded and dead. I flew to the rocky outcropping and the soul of the person I would never again forget and would always find.

Landing near the rocks, I let my spirit recede into Halo and Shadow, unwilling to entirely let go of the strength and comfort they brought me. Fiahre landed beside me. I glanced at her, then stepped into the cool darkness of a maze of rocks, my staff held ready.

A dark form separated itself from the shadows.