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“All of their best mages.”
    I reached my mind out
to those on the other side of the shield, bracing myself for entering
the Daemoni’s putrid minds that filled me with the worst kind
of dread. I pushed past the evil and listened to their plans.
    “They’ve
sent their most powerful mages here while their vamps and Weres are
attacking the Normans.”
    I skipped to a new mind
signature, and as soon as I tried to latch onto the thoughts, intense
pain seared through my eyeball and into my brain as though a nail had
been driven into it. I clutched at my head, doubling over. I squeezed
my eyes closed and concentrated on pushing the pain out.
    “Lex, what’s
wrong?” Tristan’s large hand landed on my back and tried
to soothe me.
    My head tilted, and my
jaw clenched until finally, the agony dulled.
    “They have a …
sorcerer … and a sorceress with them.” I tried to
breathe through the lingering pain and finally managed to open my
eyes to find Tristan and Vanessa hovering over me. “Kali must
have taught them how to block me from their minds. Shit, that hurt.”
    Tristan reached out and
wiped his thumb over my upper lip. It came away bloody.
    “They haven’t
been involved in the attack, though. Yet,” I added.
    “They’re
just wearing us down right now,” Vanessa said.
    Avoiding the sorcerers,
I took my injured mind to one of the warlocks’ to study her
thoughts further and nodded. They’d already figured out the
north end of the island had been deserted, so they gave up on their
attack up there. But they weren’t giving up for good. They were
only regrouping.
    “They’re
getting ready to hit us with their heavy guns,” I confirmed,
and I opened my mind to those of the entire island. Everyone take
cover! It’s not over!
    People shrieked and ran
into the streets before flashing away, hopefully gathering together
under the protection of our weaker mages, which was protocol in the
event of an attack. Many of the witches and wizards of the village
may only be able to shield their homes or a single room, but that was
better than nothing if our main defense collapsed.
    “ Sorcerers? ”
Owen asked me.
    A sorcerer and a
sorceress , I told him and Char. Can you hold them?
    “ We will for
as long as we can ,” Char said. “ But Owen needs to
get down there to protect you and Tristan. ”
    Before I could argue, a
succession of bright yellow and orange lights shot across the water
and blasted into our shield, breaching it almost immediately. The
next spell hit our watchtower right behind the council hall, blowing
it into pieces. The very tower where our mages powered the shield.
Owen appeared next to me at the same moment and immediately threw a
bubble over Tristan, Dorian, and me.
    “Come on,”
Tristan said, pulling Dorian back into his arms.
    He flashed, and I
followed his trail with Owen and Vanessa right on mine. We appeared
inside the dungeons under the council hall, where they’d once
jailed Tristan when he’d been accused of betraying the Amadis.
I called the others to come join us, but Blossom, Jax, and Sheree
refused to leave the injured behind.
    “ I have a
shield on them ,” Blossom assured me. “ You just
stay safe, Alexis. ”
    Char didn’t
answer me, and I couldn’t locate her mind signature in the
chaos, but she’d been in the tower with the other mages when
the Daemoni had hit it. My heart wobbled, but I refused to believe
she was dead. I couldn’t handle another death so soon,
especially hers. I glanced at Owen, and his face remained stoic. He
refused to believe, too.
    I sat against the cold,
stone wall of one of the cells, closed my eyes, and used my mind to
peek into others’ heads until I found a vampire who peered
outside from his window. Now that the main shield had collapsed, the
sorcerer and sorceress seemed to have backed off. In fact, magic
spells no longer rained down on the town. Only a few random shots
came, as though they were double-checking that the shield had
actually