I held
my breath, my eyes slowly trailing the writing.
“If you are reading this, then the book has accepted you… as it once did me.”
My throat closed up. I had so many questions. Too many, but I kept reading, desperate, as though the ink might vanish at any moment.
“There is one more key, Mira… one you must find if you are to stand against her. Alexa’s power cannot be shattered by might alone. You will need the lost one. The child of dusk and dawn. You’ll know them when the time comes.”
The child of dusk and dawn?
I frowned, the words spinning through my head like leaves caught in a storm. Who could that be? What did it even mean?
As if my confusion wasn't enough, the final lines hit like a blade to the gut.
“But be warned, Mira. The one who stands beside you with loyalty may one d
