KiaShe came back to herself slowly, the way surfacing from deep water required patience rather than urgency.She was on her knees. She didn't remember kneeling. Her children were in her arms, both of them quiet now, their eyes their ordinary dark color, no longer glowing, simply looking at her with the specific calm of two beings who had just completed something significant and were now, for the first time in their short lives, fully at rest."Kia." Xander's voice, close, his hands on her shoulders, steadying her. "Kia, can you hear me.""Yes," she said, and found her voice steady, clearer than it had been in months. "Yes, I can hear you."She looked around the room. Everyone was still standing, still in their positions, the circle unbroken. Sable was crying, quietly, her notebook clutched to her chest. Declan looked as though he'd witnessed something that had finally answered four years of obsessive research and found the answer larger than he'd prepared for. Liam and Kratavak and R
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