ELIAS Royal blood possessed potent healing properties. It was strong enough to snatch a soul back from the brink of death. Because of this, it was a rare, highly coveted commodity. There were so few Royals left after the last Battle for the Throne, and the number willing to share their essence was even lower. Blood was the major catalyst to initiate the Change, after all. Very few were willing to hand it out and risk creating fledglings they had no knowledge of or control over. Fledglings made from Royal blood were incredibly strong. Before now, I’d never had a reason to use my blood to heal someone, let alone a human. Yet here I was. I couldn’t bear to watch the woman who killed my brother suffer. How laughable. All that talk about making her pay for what she’d done, and now look at

