Chapter 81

Everything went still. Phoenix hovered in the air, a stricken look on her face as she looked around as if searching for something to fall as if the sky would come falling on her head at any second.

Maggie waited.

Asher waited.

Lance waited.

Ezekiel waited.

Then Phoenix started to laugh. A peal of nervous laughter spurted out of her. She looked even crazier than before as she opened her mouth unnaturally wide to laugh at Maggie’s foolishness.

“It failed!” She laughed. “Nothing happened.”

She spun in the air laughing as she tossed her hair about. “Oh, mortal. Foolish, foolish mortal! You have failed. You have brought an end to your kind!”

Without warning she snatched the sword from a dazed Maggie’s hands. It was coated with her blood.

“Oh, look,” Phoenix taunted her. “I win!” she chuckled.

Maggie didn’t know what to do. She lost. She lost and now…

She looked back at Asher and Lance. Would they start disintegrating or wo