Chapter 23: After
Alec
Alec was thrown, there was no doubt about it. He was used to a certain number of peculiar happenings by now—the incident at the Lewiston was a case in point. But he’d never been able to actually see the magic before.
That cloud of gold around Fenn and Mira…that was what Lew experienced all the time? It was both marvelous and terrifying. He knew, intellectually, that the only reason Mira was alive after being savaged by the Creature when it escaped in the winter was because she had been able, in some way, to Pull magic from the Border to heal herself enough to survive. It was completely another thing to actually watch it happening.
Her skin had changed under his eyes from an unhealthy grayish tinge to the radiant brown of a healthy woman. That was the thing that h
