na Aco

outside. The room was filled with the cloying smell of me

leanor Black. Her breathing was so

raved with ancient runes from my small backpack and placed the

ying. What I was about to do was the long-lost art of "Meridian Channelin

le black t-shirt. I took a deep breath and

contact, a commotion erupted outside, p

door down! The Enforcers are here!

f bodies hitting the door and Burrell's furi

isturbance could disrupt

ded, and silver runes flowed from my arms like

of an Enforcer captain. "Occupant, listen up! You are under arrest for the

pells on the door trembling,

soul. I could "see" it now-the fat, slug-like Soul-Eat

, psychic shriek, beginning to fight back.

re of my magic into the fight.

endous crash, the

zards in the formal uniforms of the Enforce

didn't

od in front of me

light characteristic of Abyssal House spells. His ice-blue eyes were

it dropped the temperature of the

nd his wand to defy his family a

m and hesitated. "Mr. Black, please do not o

ed my grandmother and nearly killed her? Get out. Or I won't hesitate

e Enforcers exchanged uncertain g

feel the solid warmth of his back, a

eart hammered against my

, focusing everything I had back on t

w it over the thrashing Soul-Eater, yanking

heaving. The room fell completely

r chest wasn't rising. She looked worse tha

the doorway, a twisted look of triump