I stumbled out of the veil and onto cold stone, a familiar triad of elderly demons watching as I caught myself and spun on Bakari.
"WHY?" I lunged for him, pounding on his chest with my fists, sending him stumbling back under Ram's weight, unable to stop me from assaulting him. "I could have killed him. You should have left me to kill him!" Elphremantic's face wavered in my rage-filled memory, the flames of my sorcery striking out against Bakari.
"Ruler." Raethnn's soft voice carried power as the old demon leader of the Daeva's magic wrapped around mine in a surge and contained it. Or tried to. I was much stronger than her, a fact that seemed to shock her as I spun on her this time. But despite her weakness, her act succeeded anyway. I felt my anger cool as Ahbi soothed me, the hate I fe
