Dakshana cast a wild glance at Chadstone, but he looked utterly unmoved by what he saw. So that’s what the soul of a shadow-being looked like, if it had a soul at all? Dakshana wondered what it had done, that it had gone from looking like Chadstone to looking like...that.
“You know the rules, young one,” the creature said, and oh, but its voice was still as lovely as a single star in an empty sky. “Life for life.”
“I do know the rules,” Chadstone agreed quietly.
“We gave her two lives, and she must give us one.”
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