Damon convulsed violently, unable to pull his hands free from the archway's surface, broken light beginning to spread across his skin exactly like the fragment creature we had fought days earlier.
"He is being consumed," Odessa shouted over the chaos. "The archway is treating his forced intrusion as exactly the kind of violation it was designed to reject, and it is punishing him accordingly."
Kade started forward instinctively, some deep, complicated loyalty overriding his obvious fury toward his father, but Thessaly caught his arm before he could reach the archway himself.
"If you touch him now, the corruption could spread to you as well," she warned urgently.
"The archway does not distinguish between rescuer and violator once this kind of reaction begins."
"I can not simply watch hi
