Book Five: Chapter 190

He tried to withdraw the magic, but it burned deep inside him, like inhaling hot smoke. Time was going back to normal, and the next few moments of his life would change everything. He had come into this fight with the attitude that nothing else mattered, but he knew now that it wasn’t true. No matter what was going on in his life, there were still plenty of people who mattered to him.

And right now, they needed him to come back alive.

“No,” he muttered through gritted teeth, feeling his magic try to feed his rage back into him. It was trying to establish a feedback loop and he fought back. The anger needed to go somewhere else, but where?

The magic couldn’t be stopped, the spell had already begun. He thought back to sitting at the table with Dana, wondering if magic was like energy. The sparks had sunk into the wood of the table and vanished. He couldn’t let it back into his own body, nor could he use it to kill Leeds. It would have to go somewhere else, but where