Chapter 237 Race Against Time

• Xandra
• “Alexander,” Father said across miles of mind-link, his voice thin with exhaustion or the unstable magic connecting us. “Alexander, Maris, my time has come.”
• I’m sure he knew that those words would send me running. They have. My whole body burns as I run, not as bad as it burned just riding on Finn’s back on the way to Hana’s side, but bad enough. Her warnings carve lines of fire into my skin. I should be resting.