[Lana]

"Things went to hell back then," I said, my voice heavy.

"Yeah," Vance agreed. "I’d never seen so much calamity at one time."

"So, then you remember the attack on Emberwood—that night that I told you about."

"I was there—on the frontlines with your other half," he said. "Lan, of course, I remember."

I nodded, feeling the guilt that I had not been there. Vance, sensing it, squeezed my hand.

"You were going through something, Lan. Anyone would have gone temporal. The Mother Instinct ...