He cursed, then looked to me. “Because that happened in Seelie, where their magic is the same⁠—-”

“So still the no new tricks thing? For how long?” I pointed to the Unseelies still on their feet. “Something has to give here eventually.”

He cursed and then threw his hand out and shouted in another language. Deacon's magic hit me in the chest. More magic! I threw my hands up and sent waves of my magic rolling across the park.

“Come.” Everest gently gripped my elbow and dragged me back over to where Tenn and Tegan stood with Saber guarding their back. He pointed to our Coven Leaders. “You two must remain priority. Don’t argue with me.”

They nodded and let us shield them. Three Unseelie sprinted out of the shadow of a tree and charged us, but about a foot away they spotted Everest and then stopped short. They cursed in their language, then scrambled to flee the scene.

I tugged on Everest’s shirt. “Their armor, it’s not normal metal, is it?”

“Not from Earth, no. Why?”

Saber shook her head. “It’s a shame Easton went down. He could’ve peeled it off them anyway, then let Lilly blast them in the face with sunlight.”

Tegan grimaced, her pale eyes bouncing back and forth as she watched the fight. “I know.”

Everest narrowed his eyes on her, then turned to me. “What were you thinking, Gali?”

I pushed more waves, but this time sent them flying a little higher in the air. “One of the Empress’s gifts is control over metal⁠—-”

Tegan gasped. “We need to find a way for her to work with theirs!”

Everest pursed his lips. “You’re right. Saber—-” Then he spoke in a language I didn’t know.

Saber nodded and slid her swords into their holsters on her back. “On it.”

He flicked his wrist, and she jumped into the Seelie tunnel on the run. “She’ll get us started on that, but I fear it might take us time and magic to sort that out.”

Tegan’s face fell. “Worth a try.”

Saffie appeared out of nowhere wrapped in thick brown vines head-to-toe like a fishnet bodysuit. She ran by us carrying half a dozen different Seelie plants in her arms that I only recognized as being from Seelie because we didn’t have plants like that here.

“ROYCE! TEGAN!” Saffie tossed the plants to Tegan while she ran. Then she threw vines from her body into the ground. They sprouted up from the ground in a dozen other places. One by one, these vines pierced through the bodies of the Unseelies and ripped them apart.

Savannah cackled from somewhere. “ASSASSIN SAFFIE!”

“ROYCE, NO!” Tegan cursed as she tossed half the plants from Saffie in his direction. “No poison, Roycy! Not yet!”