Sienna watched Perry walk forward and clasp Aguila’s hand, assuming leadership of the team with the natural confidence she had seen before in his father. But then she noticed the slight delay in his step, a halting stride that spoke of the weakness that came after using magic.
They were all fragile right now.
Jari and Finn were both wounded by the giant birds, Mila was exhausted after Ganvié, and her own mapwalking sucked the energy from her. Sienna knew she faced a challenge ahead, too. Somehow she had managed to dampen down the shadow inside, but Perry had seen the black lines on her skin. He would have to tell Bridget and her father, and she needed him to, because she couldn’t do it herself. It might mean the end of her mapwalking before it had even really begun and she wouldn’t give
