Gea hammered forcefully in my head, determined to emerge at any moment, and I wasn't willing to restrain her. With the headlights of the just-arrived car glaring in my eyes, Aly, injured and battered at my side, and Ethan's cold, unconscious body in my lap, I took a deep breath to transform. It was going to be painful, but more than necessary. I was halted by recognizing a special kind of energy, which I immediately identified. It was a flow much stronger than that of the twins, yet more generous and, in a way, even easier to gather. My senses throbbed with its proximity just as it was about to draw energy from the living bodies around me. It was Bruma. "Sussan, Sussan, quickly, they must come immediately!" the elderly woman shouted from just a few steps away from where I was. She was

