The Shifting Grove Chronicles
Book 1: Call of the Wildborn
Chapter 15: The Price of Power
Kyrielle didn't speak. Couldn't.
The clearing was still, but not peaceful - more like the silence after something vital has been torn away. Her fingers curled against the forest floor, her skin tingling with fading magic and something far colder: absence.
The bond.
She reached for it instinctively, the wa ...