Chapter Forty-FiveRemo stood in a small chamber a few tunnels down his library, hands behind his back, studying a portal that hadn't been there when I'd left. There were no markings on the ground yet, no buzzing static save for what came from the rift itself. If he had used it before, he hadn't used runes and sigils to bind it.
“Master.”
“Deal with it,” he said before he turned and left. The ripple caught my eye then, the sign there was a sphere heading this way.
Without hesitation I stripped and shifted, jaws clenching with the realization I'd need to stay until I had enough strength to travel the leeway. I left a fraction of the bond flowing, recalling how terrible it had been when Zantry closed me out. I hoped it was enough to let him know I was alive. I didn't have enough time to ca
