Seph, still floating above her bed, had shifted the slightest bit.

As soon as the three of us made it back to Necromancer Academy, with the staff, and we'd stopped in Mayvel to visit some other healers so they could heal me, my parents ambushed us in the entryway to tell us the news. We immediately went to Seph's room.

"What does this mean?" I whispered to my mom, my gaze riveted to Seph. She'd turned sideways a little toward the stone as if the weight of it were ...