Chapter 10: Ember

Everything happened in three seconds. Soren roared and threw him. Milo hit the altar stone shoulder-first and slid to the floor, and I heard the sound his body made, and something inside me tore. Not metaphorically. Between my shoulder blades, eleven years of silver split open like a seam. I have no words for it. It was fire and it was drowning and it was every single scream I never let out of my mouth since I was nine years old, all leaving at once. The stained-glass window that had survived...