“HOW?” CAIA ASKED AS she paced back and forth across the room over and over again. She couldn’t calm herself with the surprise and anger that surged through her blood. Rhiannon was Naoni—already. “How does she remember everything and I don’t?” Caia asked, flinging an accusing finger at her friend. “Calm down,” Naoni said from the bathroom, where she studied herself in the mirror. Besides her eyes, there was nothing vastly different about her. She’d apparently always looked like her elven self. It was the energy that surged from her that made all the difference. “Don’t tell me to calm down,” Caia snapped. “It feels like I’ve been working on this forever. Archai had to sprout wings for me to consider even listening to him! I’ve been carrying my orb since I first saw him and nothing—nothing

