Ember Frost’s POV

I threw myself at the High Priestess, but I wasn't fast enough.

She slipped away before I could reach her, moving with an ease that made my stomach drop. Her eyes flicked toward me for the briefest second, almost amused, and then she spoke the final words of the incantation.

The world changed.

A column of black energy shot into the sky.

The force of it hit me like a physical blow. The stone beneath my feet trembled, my ears rang, and for a second I couldn't ...