Mate? Or Die!
This was more of an army.
Odessa dismounted, looking upon me with some amusement. "Welcome home, darling."
I stiffened. "This is not home."
She laughed and shook her head. "It soon will."
Before I could utter anything else, Odessa reached inside her cloak and pulled out some small black object. A stone? No; it looked more like a relic.
There wasn't even enough time to register what she'd done before she crushed it to dust with her fingers.
A shock of magic shot through my chest, and I gasped as molten hot heat coursed through my veins. My legs buckled, and I tumbled down, and the heavy pressure coiled around me, and then—