Then they moved down my body, coating me in them so mine couldn’t get out. I tried to push them out to help, but they were locked inside me, thrashing and angry as they tried to help but couldn’t.
I’d never had a chance. Not while Elias was some kind of ghost controlling my brother. But I wasn’t just a winter born with shadows, and he had forgotten that.
So had I for a while there.
But I had been bullied my entire life, and I knew how to defend myself.
I brought my elbow into his gut, smashing the point into him hard. He let out a huff of breath before I stamped down on his foot with my boot.
His hold on me loosened, and I grabbed his hand, gritting my teeth against the burn, twisting his wrist until he dropped the dagger.
He yelped and I grabbed it, ready to sink it into him,
