Whatever horrible things I expected? Didn't happen. Instead of him betraying me and Viviana rushing in with her horrid cackle and taking over my mind, turning me into whatever she desired and using me against the world she hated? And rather than my transmutation power seeing him as a nice, light snack that it could incorporate in a delicious chomp and swallow into the yawning pit that was my dark sorcery?

Instead. Rather than. The crow who was a young man bumped up against my ...