SIXTEEN “. . .WHAT MORTALS SOMETIMES think of as limbo, a place where beings are sent to be punished.” “I know what it is. I may be an elemental being, but I am familiar with things beyond my domain, like the Akasha. What I don’t know is how you expected to get Mayling out of there.” “It’s tricky, but not impossible. It helps that Nora had summoned her from Abaddon before. There’s some sort of a sympathetic link between the two of them now that eases the more difficult summoning from the Akasha, which is why it only took Nora three tries to get May. Oh good, it looks like Gabriel has brought her around.” I opened my eyes to find those of the purest silver peering down at me with concern. “I’m not dismembered?” I asked the eyes. Tiny little laugh lines appeared around them as Gabriel

