Chapter 120
There was a great sucking whoosh inside my head. White spots danced and spiraled in front of my eyes. Ari's heartbeat was joined by a sparking noise. A clicking sound like a lighter not quite catching.
My chest constricted. I was blinded by the white filling my vision. The clicking morphed into the explosion of a single spark, so loud it deafened, so tangible it snapped my head forward. My magic burst free wrapping my body like barbed wire. A million agonizing bites tore into my flesh.
I couldn't pull away. Ari's heart pounded in my skull drowning out all other sound, throbbing through my teeth as my magic tightened around me. I smelled blood.
The magic wire outside my body tightened and tightened; the magic knot within threatened to rip me in half as it fought its unraveling. I sagged, unable to breathe, unable to support myself. Propped up solely by the magic killing me.
"Met." A chorus of women's voices chanted in my head. Death and death and death.