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After I dodged the air blast, a bolt of darkness snaked out from her hand toward me. It looked like the same shadowy mass that the shades were made out of, the same thing she’d used to steal magic from the elementals. I blasted it with fire, though I was still new to using the element, and my control was weak. I ended up spraying wide, setting the floor on fire beside her. The flames quickly jumped high, and I lost her in them. Carth appeared beside me and quickly put out the flames with a spray of water. There was no sign of the woman in the black mask. We ran outside, where most of the fighting had moved. I expected my mates to be in dragon form taking people down, but none of them were. Most of the cultists had either fled, or were dead or captured. The shades were gone. “Fly above an
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