I stumbled out of the veil and onto cold stone, a familiar triad of elderly demons watching as I caught myself and spun on Bakari.

"WHY?" I lunged for him, pounding on his chest with my fists, sending him stumbling back under Ram's weight, unable to stop me from assaulting him. "I could have killed him. You should have left me to kill him!" Elphremantic's face wavered in my rage-filled memory, the flames of my sorcery striking out against Bakari.

"Ruler." Raethnn's ...