I couldn’t even think that was possible. Clearly I needed more witchcraft lessons. They should have destroyed each other. They should have clashed, snapped, exploded. Instead, they twisted into a single spear. Gold-blue lightning around a black core. Beautiful. Horrifying. Absolutely not something I wanted to be standing near with my current luck. “Hold it steady,” Marcellus said. Mom bared her teeth. “Do not give me orders.” “Then consider it a suggestion from the only bastard here who knows what this is.” Mom made a sound that might have been a laugh if the world was not currently terrible. The spear hit the seal. The corridor itself screamed, actually the walls, the floor and the ceiling. It was like being in a fantasy movie with those special effects no one could even recr

