“She left that night with Trulian and put up the barrier. It was the first vision I saw. When I went to the House of Shadows before I began training, I connected with the wall, and it showed me Mei doing it, but I had no idea who she was. I’ve been researching it.”

Zina came to her feet again. “My mother had spirit magic but not… she couldn’t have done that alone.”

“I believe she was like me,” Kerrigan said. “You didn’t know that she was a spiritcaster?”

Zina’s eyes shot to her. “What did you say?”

“She was a spiritcaster.”

“No. I haven’t heard that word in a long time either. She would have told me. She wouldn’t have kept it from me.” Zina looked frazzled.

“Someone went to great lengths to keep what she did from you and the public.”

Zina paced the room. “That bastard!” she snarled. “I need to go.”

“Wait, go?” Kerrigan asked, jumping up after her.

“There are things I need answers to.”

“But I thought you were training me.”

“This is as far as we go,” Zina said dismissively as she headed for the door. “If what you said is true, then I can’t help you any more than I have. You will need a spiritcaster trainer.”

“But your mom was the last spiritcaster in Alandria!”

“Then look beyond Alandria,” Zina said at the door.

Kerrigan balked. She’d never considered that as an option, but she didn’t even know how to find someone like that. She couldn’t exactly leave training. Zina had been her one hope to figure this out.

“Where are you going?”

“To get answers,” Zina said.

Zina bundled up their supplies and rushed out of the house. Kerrigan followed her in a huff. Vox appeared in the street, and they were airborne in an instant. Kerrigan would give anything to call Tieran right now and have him sweep her away from this moment. She was shaking from exhaustion. The vision had snapped it all out of her, and the last thing she wanted was to wander through the streets of Kinkadia at night alone.

A thought hit her as she huddled against the side of Black House. Zina had taught her that every person had their own signature and she could draw them into the spirit world. Dragons had dominion over the spiritual, which meant Tieran could be pulled in. Her idea bloomed bright, forming in her mind, giving her a way to fix what was broken.