Roxie's POV
I jerked my hands back from Tor as if he had burned me.
"What's wrong?" he said—out loud this time, his real voice, raspy and confused. "Roxie, you look like you've seen a ghost. You just *fixed* me. Why do you look afraid?"
"I heard you," I whispered. "Just now. You didn't say it. But I heard it. *What in the world is she becoming.*"
Tor went very still. Then, slowly, he said, "I didn't say that out loud."
"I know."
We sat in the dark grass and stared at each other, and the truck ticked and cooled, and neither of us had any idea what to do with what had just happened.
It was Raptor who broke it. "Vespera said the dragon-witch in your blood remembers what your mind hasn't learned." His voice was low. "Maybe it's true for more than fighting. Maybe she didn't just leave h
