Seba’s stomach plummeted toward the bottom of the ocean. Fighting fatigue, she wielded a wave into being and rose at its crest, aiming to catch the white dragon with another arm of water. Ashétyn reached him first. She darted in and caught Valerion’s neck in her talons. The necrocrelai wrenched him sideways, using the momentum of his fall to hurl him asunder. Before him, a sparkling black portal irised open in midair. A ragged scream tore Seba’s throat as she watched dragon and speaker vanish into the void, swallowed whole in the blink of an eye. Cackling madly, Ashétyn dove into the dark portal after them. Seba didn’t think about what she was doing. Her magic leapt, responding to her innermost desires. An arm of seawater lifted her, jettisoning her forward. She wielded herself, straigh

