“She’s bonded,” said Fletcher. “At least, she was.”
“My bond to Fletcher superseded my bond to valemagic,” Khyvette explained. “But my sovereign kin remain bound to it. Entropy has made all vale-threads unavailable and unwieldable until one soul emerges triumphant in the battle for magical supremacy.”
A leaden ball dropped through Keriya, landing in her stomach.
Khyvette extended her leg so Keriya and Fletcher could clamber aboard. “I can get you to Necrovar. Hurry.”
Keriya glanced at Roxanne. “You coming?”
Roxanne pursed her lips. Her golden gaze traveled over Effrax, who fought a gray-robed soldier of the Shadow Guard, to the limp body of Frinshir, to the creatures who’d followed them from the crater.
Keriya hadn’t been aware of their presence in the heat of battle. She’d been so f
