Panic rippled through our group instantly, warriors scattering to search the camp, Rowan already sprinting back the way he had come, his voice raw with fear.
"She was standing right beside me," he said, breathless, when I caught up to him near the outer edge of the standing stones. "One moment we were talking, and the next the air around her just seemed to fold, like heat rising off summer pavement, and she was gone before I could even reach for her."
Thessaly appeared beside us, her expression grave despite the broken light still occasionally flickering beneath her composed exterior. "The Hollow has taken her into the space between the stones," she said. "A pocket outside normal reality, thin and unstable, where fragments sometimes drag pieces of the bloodline they consider useful."
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