‘Now what?’Soul-me asked.
My ancestors all slowly crept forward as if they were going to gang up on Honor, stalking him like a lion stalks prey.‘Now have your soul grasp his and yank it out of the wolf while your human self pins the wolf-him down.’
My eyes widened.‘I can’t do that, not without telling him.’
‘Tell him?’ Lucia cackled.‘That’d be a rookie mistake, Nai! He’ll clench up, and it’ll take you an hour to tease them apart, at least. No, a quick attack is best.’
Oh mage!
Honor was going to kill me.
Human-body me looked down at Honor and smiled, and then spirit-me attacked. I leapt on his wolf’s back like a lunatic, and spirit-me reached inside of him and grabbed at his soul. ‘Hold still!’
Honor froze, eyes wide. ‘It’s cold. I feel weird.’
I laughed nervously.
“What’s going on?” Rage asked.
“Nothing,” I said too quickly and then leapt for Honor with my human body. Wrapping my legs around him, I pinned his wolf to my chest as soul-me ripped soul-Honor clean out of his wolf’s body.
Honor let loose with an ear-splitting howl, and then the wolf body went limp in my arms.
Crap!
I looked up at Zia with wide eyes.
‘Normal.’ She waved it off. ‘Now, use your spirit magic to place his soul in the dead boy’s body; then lay the wolf on top of the selenite wand, and his soul will naturally call to the wolf’s form, and they will all merge.’
“What the hell, Nai!” Justice stepped forward, but Rage pulled him back.
“Just. Trust. Me,” I grunted, and heaved the limp wolf closer to Julian’s body. Soul me was having the same struggle dragging Honor’s soul across the space and to the body.
‘You could have warned me, Nai!’Honor’s soul scowled at me.
I took him talking as a good sign.‘Sorry!’I shrugged, offering my lame apology.‘Just doing as I’m told.’
Soul-me grunted and heaved, and then I began to lay Honor’s soul over Julian’s body with spirit magic. I felt the pull to join my spirit, and it was so weird to see me outside of me. Power flowed through my human form and then into my soul so that I could lay it over Honor and weave him into his new body. Finally, when spirit-me was done, I sat back, panting, and looked at human-me expectantly.
With a final groan, I lay Honor’s limp wolf on top of the selenite wand on Julian’s dead body.
“What now?” I asked out loud, looking at Zia.
She shrugged.‘Now, we wait.’
Spirit-me joined with my body as I sat beside Julian, er, Honor, waiting with the half-filled bottle of healing elixir.
“Come on,” I said.
“They both look dead,” Justice said flatly.
“They’re not,” I shot back. Then for good measure, I looked at my ancestors.‘Right?’
Lucia shrugged.‘Technically, a little, but—’
Julian’s chest rose with a sharp, beautiful intake of breath, and I froze.
Everyone froze.
