Levi didn't even pretend to look like he swallowed that whopper. Perversely, his open antagonism fueled me. What's your most satisfying relationship? Ugh.

Of course I wanted the magic, but the last part of trying to take it had been terrifying. I'd gone into a black hole and become empty. It was worse than I imagined death to be, because there was no end. The opposite, in fact. There was a void that hollowed me out one molecule at a time. My dissolution would take eternity. The ...