I sat on the edge of my bed, staring at my phone screen filled with news alerts about the spreading illness. Dozens of people. All marked. All deteriorating.
But my mind kept drifting somewhere else.
To the Shadow Depths.
To Raya.
I'd seen her there when Gia had shown me that dimension. Suspended in chains of shadow, her eyes empty, her consciousness being slowly broken down for Xarath to consume. And unlike the fragments in the Echoing Wastes, she was already dead. Already past the point where her physical body existed in the Mortal World.
Saving her would be different. Harder. I'd have to pull her complete soul out of active torture and guide it to the Liminal Realm where it belonged.
And I'd just barely managed to save one fragment from the Echoing Wastes.
The thought of attempti
