CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
Mistress Obsidian stared into her vision bowl with disbelief and growing rage. How had Christopher Blue been overpowered by a seer? She’d imbued him with the power of dark matter! The strongest, most volatile power a human could possess! And how had Malcolm Malice let her down so spectacularly? He was her best student! All they’d had to do was destroy Oliver Blue so he could not rescue the Orb of Kandra. Yet they’d completely failed, getting caught up in petty squabbling amongst themselves.
She should never have entrusted such an important task to them.
She stood up from the table, furious—with them, with herself for putting her faith in them—and stormed over to the window.
Across the playing fields her students worked on their archery practice. To think she’d let th
