Both the queen and the empress vanished.
At the same time, my hands went through the fog.
One moment they were there, solid and real.
Their shapes are sharp against the air.
And the next they were nothing but a thinning mist that slipped through my fingers.
I felt the cold pass through my palms.
Like touching the early morning air.
And then even that was gone.
I stood still, hands half-raised.
I kept staring at the empty space where they had been.
Lucy slowly came down from the sky and said to me.
"Looks like they had already prepared a spell for escape."
Her voice was calm, steady.
Like this was something she had expected.
She landed lightly, her boots touching the ground without a sound.
The air around her settled.
And the faint shimmer that followed her descent faded away.
I nodded at her, not trusting myself to speak just yet.
And we both walked to the girls.
Aria was puking currently.
