At the very least she should have apologized, Morgan told himself. Instead, Liia stared blankly at him.
“Uh, guys?” Gwyn called their attention back to the issue at hand. “What’s… what’s happening to them?!”
Morgan tore his eyes away from Liia’s to search out this threat. Gwyn hadn’t been known to cry out in that way. Scream? Yes. Cry? No. As he turned to see exactly what was going on, Gwyn charged in and he took off after her.
All that was on his mind was making sure Gwyn was safe. Ejder wasn’t responding to him; there was no direction, no time. There was only the ongoing weaving bursts of their elements building upon each other until all they looked like was an eternal ball of knots. Deep inside their threaded bodies, light flickered on and off again. At the very least, it looked li
