Only one question remained to me, the most important, as far as I was concerned now, though perhaps irrelevant in the grand scheme. Still, I asked it without thinking because I really wanted to know.

"Who is Leah?" I aimed that at both of them, internal and external. Felt Hazel quiver, remembered the girl only then, sheltering her from Viviana though the old sorceress made no attempt to talk to her or even acknowledge she was there inside me with us.

Yes, my locketmate ...