Chapter Twenty-FourThe pain in my brain subtly shifts—as though a magnet pulls the vile energy from my head into my body.
The agony travels through my shoulder and into my hand.
It’s so intense I nearly drop Fluffster’s carrier.
Then I see the black electricity turn pink in the vicinity of Rose’s ring, and as suddenly as the pain appeared, it harmlessly dissipates, just as the ring cracks in half.
“The spell failed,” Fluffster notifies me excitedly. “We should get out of here before she casts another.”
Since I don’t know how to speak to Fluffster mentally, I don’t tell him that getting out of a locked room guarded by Koschei on the other side might not be the easiest thing.
Then it hits me.
Rose’s ring protected me.
Only now it’s broken, so the protection is gone.
Acting purely on
