I didn't know Mira could do that.
The squad was pinned against the eastern ridge, thirty soldiers with nowhere to go, their backs to the cliff and a wave of nightmares surging toward them. I was too far away. Too slow. Too useless.
"Lena, look!" Aria grabbed my arm, and I followed her gaze to the ridge.
And there was Mira.
She wasn't running. Wasn't hiding. Wasn't doing any of the things I expected from the quiet girl who always stayed in the background, who never raised her voice, who made herself small so everyone else could be big.
She was standing at the front of the squad, her hands raised, and silver light was pouring out of her like a waterfall.
"Get down!" she screamed at the soldiers behind her. "Everyone get down now!"
They dropped. Every single one of them. And then the s
