Chapter 11 - Midwinter Shadows-3
The terrible rain of lies continued. Mourini’s tone was gloating now. A single tear formed on Luka’s cheekbone, then slipped down his face as he watched Mina’s skin grow pale and her grey eyes fade to a light silver. ‘Mina …’ he whispered. She didn’t respond. The dark copper web began to seep into her skin. Wherever it faded into her, the faintest hairline crack appeared. Light seeped out from the cracks, faint at first but quickly becoming a blaze of shifting silver and gold, with flashes of colour like sequins caught by stage lights, beautiful for the space of a breath, then gone. Mourini stopped speaking and inhaled deeply as the light from Mina bridged the space between them. Desperate to stop what he was seeing, Luka lunged at the ancient player, but Mourini raised one hand and fro
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