The Price Of Fate
Nyra shifted slightly under Elaine’s hand, a soft sound leaving her throat, and I forced myself to lower my voice.
“I won’t tell anyone,” I said, controlled now but still furious. “I swear it. But you have to start talking.”
Elaine looked at Nyra again, her hand smoothing Nyra’s hair back gently, and something in her face softened, love and fear twisted together. Then she looked back at me.
“It doesn’t matter,” she said.
I blinked.
“What?”
“It doesn’t matter,” she repeated, firmer, like she was trying to convince herself as much as me. “Nyra is ordinary. She did not inherit her father’s abilities. So there is no need to,”