Chapter 26
Alyna came back to the center of what used to be the fighting platform of Amaraq’s North Side fight club. Around her were loose bricks, broken furniture, and bits and pieces of walls and the roof. Tomkin grabbed a shovel and started digging, making an attempt to clean things up and hoping there was still a chance he could repair the building with his bare hands in time to use it for the summoning trial next week.
Alyna understood that the club was his baby. He had worked here his whole life. The summoning was a centennial event, and being able to host just the trial for it had been his lifetime dream. But she saw no chance of the event happening here.
“Tomkin!”
“What?” he asked and kept digging.
“Tomkin!”
“I’m busy here! What do you want, Alyna?”
“The building is ruined,
