SILAS POV
* Duncan Laurence - Arcade*
I knew she was falling before I saw it with my eyes because the bond changed in a way I had never felt before, not a clean break, not a dramatic snap, but a thinning that felt like someone had taken a blade and scraped the inside of my chest hollow, and in that space where her power had been blazing there was suddenly air and distance and something cold that did not belong there. She was drained.
And it meant there was nothing anymore keeping her between the vanishing clouds.
The king was still screaming in my talons when it happened.
His flesh was peeling away under her light, blackened skin splitting and sliding from bone while his magic came apart in shreds that evaporated before they could hit the air, and I remember thinking that I had never
