I tossed and turned, trying to get some sleep, wondering how I could ever sleep again knowing Demonicon was falling apart around me. But even I needed rest, lest my judgment become clouded by stress and worry as well as the expended power I'd used up in the last day or so.

It felt like putting everything on hold, lying there in my giant bed while the moons rose one by one through my window. And yet, I'd done everything I could for the moment, or, at least, I told myself so. I'd ...