Chapter 23

Jayce burst into the clearing. Bailey was on her feet, lifting a goblin by his filthy clothes. She was pure light, her Magick so hot that he was afraid to step closer to her. The Goblin's shriek lifted the hair on his arms as it's flesh began to bubble on its face. Blood flecked it's thin lips, but Bailey only shook it.

"How dare you." She hissed. "How dare you touch what is mine." Blisters rose on the Goblin's gray leathery skin, "I don't know who this Arawn is, but here's a message for your 'Lord', if he seeks to harm what is mine, I will raze his flesh from his bones and piss in his ashes." Bailey flung the goblin and it smacked against a tree. It pulled itself up, it's mangled face a mask of terror before it loped off into the darkness.

Bailey turned to Tobin, on the ground and unnaturally still. Dark stains married his pale skin and his leg was at an odd angle. Bailey still shone with the light of the sun, her Magick whipping around her in deadly tendrils.

Beckett surged past him,