In the night's quiet, Lila makes Kell tell her about the unspoken weight, the pain that follows the use of his magic, and together they make a step towards healing, a better life, and a stronger bond. "... I would come to you again and again and again even when the world was ending and there was no magic left.” Kell x Lila

Rhy searches for information about the other Londons.

Rhy wondered what he'd do for magic. [Drabble written for Puimoo for Multifandom Drabble 2017.]

This is my version of the 1823 Essen Tasch tournament; the one after the 1820 one in "A Gathering of Shadows". It follows Leo Ronllim who is from an established family in Arnes and has been training to compete in the "Element Games" for some time now.

He doesn't know where everything begins. With the Dane twins, with a stone, with a shadow king. Choices upon choices, so many that, perhaps, they've never had a beginning. But he knows how it ends.

As Lila walks away from Kell, she realizes something. (This takes place at the end of the first book, "A Darker Shade of Magic").