Miri rushed to Jim, dropping to one knee beside him. She pressed a crystal into the palm of his hand and then crushed it. Tommy felt the Ether surging, healing the other man’s wounds. He could sense damaged organs repairing themselves, sense the growth of new cells.
“He’s weak,” Miri said. “He’ll survive. but he needs rest.”
Adele’s sudden reappearance in the Eradian camp drew Tommy’s attention like an iron filing to a magnet. He sensed her among the enemy troops, a cloud of darkness in the shape of a woman.
Gathering the Ether, Tommy prepared to attack, but once again, she was too quick for him. She vanished before he could cut her off from the source of her power, taking a dozen black-coats with her.
They materialized on the hilltop, only fifty feet away. Tommy was so shocked that he
