We left the clearing faster than we'd arrived in it, Amara insisting on coming with us despite Marcus's initial objection.
"If Thorne's making his move now," she said, climbing into the back of Cole's car beside me, "then staying here alone is the worst thing I could do. Whatever protection this clearing offered depended entirely on nobody knowing where it was. That's gone."
Kael drove. I watched him work the phone and the road at the same time, voice clipped and fast, calling in every favor and every piece of authority he still held as he tried to reach council members before the vote could finish without him in the room to answer it.
"Selene," he said, into the phone, to someone I didn't recognize by name but placed instantly by the reverence in his voice. "I need you to stall the vot
