I rushed forward blindly, my heart slamming my panic deeper into my veins. "Who screamed?"
Seph. Oh gods, I had to go to her.
"I don't know," Ramsey said, closing the kitchen door behind me. "But the more important question might be what happened to the magic in the school?" A pause, then, "And why my magic isn't working."
"What?" I snapped my fingers, and a flame of murky gray light licked across my palm. "Are your reserves - "
"My reserves are fine."
Realization crashed to the forefront with a surge of renewed panic. "The dampener. It's here." I looked up at him, my stomach dropping lower than my toes. "The stone!"
He grabbed my wrist as I started to run toward it. "We need to find the dampener."
"But all of the stone's protections - "
"Could come back once we find the dampener a
