Chapter 120: Hard Reckoning

Thomas

There’s no question she means it. Emily has been angry with us before—livid even—but this is something else entirely. She may be shaking, but the girl is as grounded as I’ve ever seen her. There’s a deeper edge to her fury, along with a resoluteness that completely belies her delicate frame.

Fists clenched at her sides, she glares at each of us in turn, those startlingly sharp eyes demanding an answer more sternly than words ever could.

The profound power of whatever she enacted to disrupt Naida still lingers around Emily like smoke—raw and unsettled. A faint, acrid whiff like an electrical fire pours off her, a testament to the depth of the forces that she contains.

“Well?” The word bites out hard between her teeth. “Aren’t any of you going to answer me?”