“There's just one more,” Darius murmurs as I stagger along, trying to keep up with him as he steps through portal after portal while putting wards back up. Darius wants to infuse them with my magic to strengthen them.
The exhaustion I am experiencing is excruciating. The amount of power I used earlier has exhausted me, making me queasy and light-headed. My wings drag across the ground behind me because I can’t figure out how to make them go away. Needing a break from the heavy weight of them on my back, I sit down on the moss-covered ground. My body feels like it has run a marathon.
“One more and I promise that is it,” Darius says, looking down at me from where I sit next to the ward he has just set.
“Just let me lay down for a second,” I tell him, and he sighs loudly.
“We need to get
