“I will, Niko.” He would. He needed to. He didn’t feel the shade as strongly as Niko, but he could still feel it now that they’d connected. “Just hang on to me.”
Focusing on the strongest ley line, which Travis hoped was the one holding them all together, he pushed their combined magick into the air. Light pierced through the shade. It didn’t last, but it made it quiver and release a shrill, blood curdling cry as a thick patch of ice abruptly spread right beneath it, jagged lines of frost almost reaching Travis’s feet.
Eyes on the floor, Travis took a small step back and when he looked up again his stomach folded. Though the shade had no facial features to speak of, its stone cold gaze was fixed right on him. As if it’d been hunched over, it straightened, adding at least another foot to
