Lyra’s POV

“Do something!” I screamed, my voice raw. “You’re a witch, Kaia!”

Kaia stood frozen, her eyes unreadable, even as panic surged within me. I have never seen someone burn with fever from a forest scorpion’s bite. After a moment that stretched like eternity, she stepped forward, placing a reluctant hand on my shoulder.

“I’m sorry, Lyraa, but Aliyah is gone.”

I refused to believe her. “I took out the poison.”

“Can’t you see that she’s walking off already? The poison is in her brain and there’s nothing we can-”

“Do anything!” I yelled above her voice of reason.

Aliyah, like all of us, deserved to get her revenge...