It’s eating the perimeter, Kade explains, his mental voice tight. Morgan calculated the rate of consumption. It’s moving inward at roughly ten feet an hour. The lattice is holding it back, but the Void is digesting the magical energy we’re projecting. It’s using our own defense as fuel.
My stomach drops. How long until it reaches the Academy?
Forty-eight hours, Kade says. Maybe less, if it accelerates.
Silence falls in the cabin, save for the crackle of the fire. Forty-eight hours. We had successfully defended the pack, but we had only bought ourselves two days. If we cannot find a way to push it back, the Void will consume the Academy, the pack house, and eventually, the entire territory. And once it finishes here, it will move on to the rest of the world.
Defense isn't enough, I say,
