Chapter 72

***Evangeline point of view***

The training ground was different from yesterday. Bigger. Darker. The stone walls seemed to pulse with their own heartbeat, and the air tasted of metal and old magic.

"Today we test your limits," Silas said, walking in slow circles around me. "Yesterday you touched your power. Today you learn to use it."

I stood in the center of the circle he'd drawn in silver chalk. My hands shook slightly. Ever since the throne room, ...