POV: Sera
The doorway in the sky pulsed with sickly light.
I held Ember tighter as reality bent around us. The clearing we'd been standing in moments ago was gone. The safe house vanished.
Now we stood somewhere else entirely.
Underground, I realized. Stone walls pressing in from all sides. Torches flickering. The smell of earth and old magic.
"Where…" I started.
"Safe," Kai gasped. He was on his knees, bleeding worse than before. "Pulled us through. Old escape route. Only works once."
The Primordials' roars echoed from somewhere far above. Furious. Cheated.
But distant.
For now.
Kade shifted back to human, immediately moving to my side. His hand found the small of my back. Grounding. Real.
"Is she breathing?" he asked.
I looked down at Ember. Her eyes had closed again. The ter
