Lexi focused intently on the screen of her phone as she picked idly at the snacks that Aoife had left for her. 

　　Honestly, if it wasn't for her and Allen keeping her sanity intact after this had happened to Ann, she didn't know what she would have done. She had already been forced to ask her father for help in the few hours that had followed Ann's poisoning when, for the first time since she was a child, her abilities had threatened to overwhelm her as both souls erupted in a helpless, yet furious, rage.

　　If it hadn't been for Aoife's hasty dampening spellwork that had mitigated most of her...