Wind rushes past me as I fall, and I watch the ground grow closer. It is like time stops, everything slowing down. Then, I see every particle in the air, every vapor and streak of light from the moon, when suddenly arms wrapped around my waist. The stone glows and burns hotter in my hand as I try to fight it from taking his magic through me when Darius opens a portal directly beneath us.
My eyes widen when Darius grips my wrist, shaking my hand, but I refuse to let go, knowing what dropping that stone would do to the city. He opens a portal. When I refuse, he blasts me with his magic, stunning me, and I scream as my arm spasms, my fingers twitching, and the stone slips through them, falling toward the portal. I grasp the air, trying to catch it, when Spark caws loudly, swooping off the r
