"Now!"Thothalas heared Sterling give the command. He tried again to link with Cadbury. Nothing. The little bunny looked up with sad eyes. She was just to weary. It had to be him alone.
He smiled at the bunny and sank deeply into his own magic. He grasped a tendril of the etheral weave and felt the sudden, violent jolt that almost snap him in two. Then he was the weave and thought of fire and was fire but he sought only the light. The fire burned him but the light flared outward into the "real" world. Distantly he heard croaking shouts and other yells. He came to himself on his knees; his thin, silver dagger already drawn.
Thothalas
