The moment the first tendrils of shadow coiled around their daughter and pulled her into the void, two things happened simultaneously somewhere in the sky, thunder cracked with unnatural violence, and two very angry women turned their gazes toward the mortal plane with murderous intent.
There are many things you can do in this world poke sleeping dragons, spit into a storm, insult a queen in her own court but kidnapping Elyzara Thorne was not one of them. It was, as fate would have it, a very poor decision.
The sky above the Academy trembled.
A rupture tore through the clouds like claws rending silk, and from the bleeding seams stepped two women.
