I tapped my fingers in my armchair. Things had gone quiet after I tried to consume Astrid's babies' spirits, and I didn't like that. I thought they would barge in, trying to kill me. With their emotions so high., I could use that to my advantage to feed. But the silence... the silence unsettled me more than any battle cry ever could.
The air in my room grew thick, and shadows stretched unnaturally long across the marble floors. I almost got them. If I had fed on those unborn spirits, I could have become stronger than Solarys and Vayra.
If they hadn't stepped in the middle of my fight, I would have gotten Astrid and changed how phoenixes have worked. The fire could have consumed that entire stupid realm, and I would have created my own.
The fact that Solarys didn't let me get what I wa
