‘You turned the entire Library into an energy collector,’ I guessed.
‘Not a bad idea of Maeval’s,’ Galy mused. ‘Oddly circular, of course. Takes a drayk to catch a drayk.’ Draykon bone glittered all around us, pulsing with amasku, and then faded away. ‘Works though.’
Another of Galy’s visions flashed through my mind: one of Krays’s energy collectors, exploding to bits. ‘So if you overload the old girl with enough amasku, you think she will burst. And you with her.’
Ori shook his head. ‘Galywis, this is the wrong way to go. You cannot destroy our Elders just in case they go mad! And you propose to destroy your Library and yourself, the same! No! It has to stop. There must be something else we can do.’
The lab vanished around us, but nothing replaced it. There was only light and heat and
