Chapter 4 WHEN THE MOON TURNED BLACK
ziers d
e weight, and the heat went out of the hall with it. Breath clouded in front o
adows beg
ched. They slid across the marble in long dark fingers, and every one of them pointed the wrong way
lowed from the doors. His voice
lped and leaped back from a shadow that had touched his boot. His claws burst out, then his teeth, half a shift in the grip of pure fright, and his mother se
wl. It rolled across the floor in a bright ring of silver, and m
of space that had opened around her without anyone choosing it,
t's coming fo
her arm, and then, with a gasp, let go,
ir
er friend's voice shook.
t. The hollow where the bond had been was no longer empty. Something was filling it, thick and slow,
a
inside her, from beneath her ribs, and it was not
d. Do not fight i
na's breath
change, flushed and glowing, describing the voice that rose up in their minds like a second heartbeat. S
til
eathed. "W
was nothing like the calm one. It was soft and rough, edged with a
em s
g her spine
k at what t
pressed the heels of her hands again
ed on her
n front of her, close, far closer than he had been all evening, his steel eyes wide and fixed on he
" he said, low and
oing an
rap
him like a thing torn loose. For one wild second, she saw something
adows slammed b
kind of terrible courtesy, pressing him back one step, then two, as if to say, Enough. His boots skidded on the ma
eal the doors! Nobo
nk back in a tide of silk. Captain Ronan Ashford was among them, one hand on his sword, his da
at is it
e. It was the first time Seraphina
s murmuring a prayer over and over, the same four words, he
gh the tall windows,
e light had been, ringed by the faint ghost of a corona, an
looked drowned. Mira had both hands over her mouth. Rowan stood perfectly still, gray as ash,
eneath her, and the cold climbed he
her palm skidded over the cold marble, and the two vo
as been
na
oked
floor in the ordinary way, a long dark sha
it lay
low the light. It stretched the other direction entirely, toward the dais, toward the throne, and a
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