"Help me Braun...I can't stop it!" Rowena shrieked, raising her arms against the tornado. Braun froze, unsure of himself. In a pact with the Magician, he'd led her here under the pretense of giving her the Blood Stones. Now, he was beginning to regret his decision. Of the remaining witches, Rowena was by far the most powerful and the Magician sought to rob her of her power and add it to His own. For his betrayal, Braun was promised the prize of his dreams: restoration to the full-fledged being he once had been before his encounter with Shadow, twenty-five winters ago. Wandering into her territory by mistake that day, she'd taken him by surprise, changing him into a lowly elemental. Though he'd managed to escape with his life, time had shown him that death at Shadow's hands would have

