Next layer,I thought.Almost… there…
I forced myself to inhale, the icy bite of Vivaxia’s power jolting me to my very core.
It sank into my soul, sucking and slicing its way down.
Cami!someone shouted again.
But I… I was lost in this web of power. Siphoning layer by layer off of Ajax. Along with… with other spells. All of them dark. All of them belonging toher.
It was heavy.
Intense.
Suffocating.
Ice prickled my being, like I’d suddenly been pulled under a crushing waterfall, the impact leaving me frozen beneath a barrage of powerful waves.
The spell,I realized.It’s breaking…
Not just in Ajax, but in everyone around me.
In the entire fucking paradigm.
I was absorbing it all. Drowning in it.Allowing those icy claws to scratch at the valve… seeking Vivaxia… desiring…
No!I screamed at it, shoving it away yet again.
But the force of it was crushing me. Pulling me.Breaking me.
Only, I couldn’t let it go back to Vivaxia, so I… I pushed everything I could into the Hell Fae Source. Everything I could give.Every piece of me.
My breath squeezed from my lungs, and my soul itself seemed to detach from my body.
But I couldn’t stop. Iwouldn’tstop. Not now. Not ever.
I had to keep going.
I can’t let her win.
Iwon’tlet her win.
This power… belongs… to Typhos Lucifer now.
Every bit of it. All the magic. The energy. Even… even me.
Because I didn’t have anything left.
Everything I am… is gone.
Every ounce.
Every spell.
Every breath.
Leaving me with nothing at all. Making me nothing. Creating…nothing.
Yet still I gave. Because I had to return all of it to the Source. To Lucifer. To the Hell Fae. To this realm.