Chapter 17
All of those mornings with all of those rituals to maintain the integrity of the time bridge had given the three of us an acute awareness of each other's magic. It was paying off now, when time was short and we didn't want the vulnerability of putting ourselves into a deep state removed from the world around us.
Not that I was much use. I could pull energy from the world around us, but without my wand I couldn't direct it towards any goal. I could just pass it to Sophie and Brianna as they worked. But I knew that was important too. Whatever happened next, we would be in real trouble if any of us were exhausted before the fight even began.
Sophie danced around the perimeter of the space, the toes of her shoes leaving loopy sweeps in the dust of ages that was piled up thicker n
