I felt myself aim the small knife Bane had given me. It would stop Noah’s swing. It would also injure him.
No time to do anything else.
I was about to throw and then pain exploded in my jaw and everything went dark.
Hands of fire clutched my arms, searching for a wound that didn’t exist. The pain was all in my mind and yet Bane had felt it too and had come for me.
‘Dallmin’s awake,’ I sobbed. ‘I can see what he saw.’
Steel eyes searched mine, frantic.
‘I felt it, Bane. He had all these emotions he didn’t understand and he was so close to home. He feels so lost …’
Powerful emotions were still ripping through me, echoes of my insight into Dallmin’s psyche, amplified by my own longing for home.
‘Let go, Lainie.’
‘I can’t! He’s in my mind.’
‘I mean let go of the splitter. Please? It
