I almost swallowed my tongue I gasped so deeply, and yet I can't say I was really that surprised, not after all the information we were struggling to process, my sister and I.

"What?" Syd was the first to speak, and I was grateful, perfectly willing to let her take the lead. "You said what?"

"From sorcery, all magicks arose," Max said, soft, mournful. "That is why it is impossible for other magicks to defeat sorcery - they are sourced from the blackness that devours ...