Interlude: Kordia

"What do you mean he fell? He has fucking wings!"

Kordia had to put more effort into resisting the urge to shriek at the no-good bully who said he saw Kir disappear.

She and Rainier knew about Lugh, which is why, here at the eleventh-floor outpost, she had focused in on him the moment she heard Kir was gone. Which is how they wound up outside the wall, with Kordia pinning the boy against a tree with magic.

"I mean they broke his wing! Then when they threw his bat off the edge, he just shouted 'Stella' and dove after her!" Lugh spoke rapidly. When Kordia had abducted him at the latrine pit, she'd been surprised when he didn't even try to call out for help, much less resist aside from when he'd first lost the ability to move.

"Why didn't Stella just fly away?" Kordia demanded.