Chapter Fifteen
I heard a groan behind me and looked over to where I’d put down Shade. She had awakened, but had not sat up yet. She was rubbing her forehead, looking weak and tired. I ran over to her and knelt over her.
“Are you all right?” I said to Shade, looking at her in concern. “How do you feel?”
“Awful,” Shade responded. She groaned. “That Sarah girl … she hit harder than I expected. She almost killed me.”
I looked over at Sarah, who was lying unconscious on the floor where I’d hit her. Given how still she lay, I doubted she would be getting back up again anytime soon. “Yeah, I know.”
“Where’s Incantation?” said Shade. “Did you beat her?”
I remembered Incantation’s bloody eyes and pained and angered voice. “She fled. Probably teleported away using her magic, though to where,
