What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear.

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.

She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

Daniel Grigori!" Arriane hooted through her hands. "No!" Daniel hooted back without missing a beat.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

Lys," he whispered. "Do you know what's coming?" "Yes," she whispered. "And you know that I'll be with you until the end?