other looking shell-shocked. Alex had been one of their dearest friends for more than half their lives, ever since they were first declared Unwanted and purged from Quill. They’d been through so much together. They’d fought together, found love together; they’d even lost their faithful friend Meghan Ranger together. The remaining three had forged stronger bonds in adulthood. There were few people who’d understood Alex better than Lani and Samheed. There were few people Alex had trusted more than them. The friends were in the prime of their lives! They had so much ahead of them! But in one horrible instant, Alex was gone. It felt like a nightmare. “I can’t believe this is happening,” Lani whispered. Samheed squeezed her hand like he was holding on for dear life. He couldn’t speak. Tears streamed down his cheeks. A step away from Lani, Fifer was numb and silent. Her relationship with her brother Alex had been rocky. But in the past days he’d become so much more than the stern, slightly distant, lisa mcmann
rule-enforcing figure she’d known all her life. He’d changed himself and in the process had come to see and accept Fifer as a full-fledged mage—and a good one, at that. He’d become
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