Zero hesitation.

Endless fury.

No doubt.

I dove through the veil after my sister's magic, my power already reaching out to squeeze the life from Ameline Benoit. Peripherally, I felt Max traveling with me, his magic humming through the veil with equal rage, the pair of us leaping out into my basement as I raised a hammer blow of maji power to crush the thieving bitch like a bug.

Only to pull up short at the fact she wasn't alone.

Not by a long ...