CHAPTER 18
“You’re alright, child,” Burk said, helping me sit up next to the heating stove in my room. “You’re home now.”
He was probably worried about me, but as I sat there with a blanket around me, I could only think about calming my shaking body, the events of earlier still blurry and jumbled in my head. We had been attacked by spirits, ghosts was what Chi called them. They slipped through the gap left before my spell met Burk’s. But what made me retch after Burk managed to seal that gap and lock the spirits out, wasn’t the ghosts. No, I was used to tormented spirits haunting my chambers back at the court as a sort of joke or a way for the members to tell me: We are always here.
What shocked me to my core was that stupid, damned ring and its power. It was mine, I knew it, I could fe
