Chapter 53Aggie was waving at me. I saw her smiling face, surrounded by lush, dark hair and a nimbus of light. It was the photo of her from the Divinities flyer, the one Briar and I had found in her apartment. The one with the sequined black evening gown and the silver brooch like the Greek letter alpha.
Only this time, as I watched, half her face turned to stone. Seams of stone threaded all through her body, winding around her arms and fingers. Right before my eyes, she turned into a Crossbreed like Mahoney. And then she spoke.
"A great war is coming, with you at the heart of it." They were her words from beyond the grave, the ones I'd heard courtesy of Ayan's machine. "A great evil wants to destroy you."
When she said it, her one human eye squeezed free of its socket and float
