Leah
The shadows binding Eyera snapped. The concentration broke, the tendrils dissolving into smoke as my focus split between the threat in front of me and the brother who'd just dropped from the sky. Eyera hit the ground, stumbled, and in the half-second it took me to process what was happening, she was already moving.
She dissolved. Her body broke apart into dark smoke the same way it had in the woods, scattering into the night air, threading through the garden, over the wall, gone. The scent of her lingered for a few seconds and then the wind carried it away.
Gone. She was gone. And she'd taken every answer with her.
“You stupid whelp!”
Andromeda's voice ripped from my throat with a fury that made the remaining shadows in the garden flare. The words weren't mine. The rage behind th
