Warrior and Witch (56 page)
Mirei nodded; she’d half-expected that. Too many people knew what the doppelgangers were, now. And, though Jaguar didn’t mention it and probably didn’t care, Lehant could never go back to Thornblood. Especially once they found out about the Thornblood involvement in the attack.
Today, though, Lehant was not her concern, nor was Amas.
Eclipse left her when they reached the downstairs room where the others waited. Satomi had decided to let him stay at Starfall, and he’d become the theory witches’ favorite new object of study since Mirei saved him from the blood-oath, but there were some things they would not let him witness yet.
Satomi was there, along with Koika, Paere, Kekkai, and Naji. And, a little distance away from the changed circle of Primes, were Urishin and Naspeth.
Together, the eight of them went across the nighttime courtyards and into Star Hall, to conduct a ritual performed only once before.
Beneath the shattered crossing and the eyes of the Goddess, Urishin sang and Naspeth danced, and strands of visible power wove around them, lifting them up. The four Elements of the world, coruscating with light, and only Mirei and the two girls could see the fifth one among them, defining their existence by opposition: the Void.
The light flared beyond Mirei’s ability to watch, and then when it cleared a single, trembling figure knelt on the dais.
Smiling through her tears, Mirei went forward to welcome her sister witch into the world.
