I nodded enough for her to feel it.

‘Three . . . two . . . one—NOW!’

I pushed my magic out and into her chest. I threw it with everything I had. Sam screamed and flew up in the air. I scrambled to my feet just as Cooper lunged through the green flames. He reached down and lifted me off the snow and into a sprint.

We made it around to the rest of our Coven-mates. Tenn and Tegan weren’t there. Our Coven Leaders were thick in battle, surrounded by Sentinels and Sweyn. Everest was fighting Tennessee, but I could tell neither one of them were trying that hard to kill the other. The rest of us were just trying to work through the vampires between us and the arch. But Lily and Cooper were weak from the Land of the Lore. Their magic was flickering.

“BEYOND THE ARCH OF MAGIC’S LANE!” Bentley yelled as he fought off a vampire. “We’re weaker here! Conserve your strength!”

“Get to the arch!” Tim shouted. “GO!”

Tegan screamed and rainbow magic exploded out of her. Sweyn shot into the air and crashed into the snow back by the ballroom’s shattered windows. But Tegan slid backwards and slammed into the arch.

Everest threw his hand up and the ground shook like an earthquake, throwing us all to the snow. Only Tenn and Everest stood still. We kept trying to get up, but the world trembled too hard. Gravity kept us down. All we could do was watch.

Black liquid bubbled up from beneath the snow. He flexed his fingers and twisted his hand. The liquid looked like tar. He’d summoned pillars made of tar all around Tennessee. The tar moved and pulsed.

And then the tar took the shape of people.

“What the fuck is that?” Easton breathed.

The tar kept morphing until it was shaped like people with weapons. The tar monsters lunged for Tenn. It was twenty on one. They attacked him with expert moves and skill. Tenn was Tenn though. He moved with speed even the vampires didn’t have. Michael’s sword sliced clean through the tar people, chopping them into pieces. But the second they hit the snow, they just began reforming.

And then Tennessee froze.

His sword lowered.

Cooper and Timothy were crawling in the snow to try and get to him. Kessler was leaping ahead but kept crashing again. Everyone was yelling. Tennessee had just stopped fighting. He’d lowered his sword until the tip of the blade hit the snow. He staggered backwards. The tar monsters he’d already sliced up were reforming already. They were going to ambush him at once.

Tenn just stared at one of them. His face was pale and a little green. His mismatched eyes were wide. “Libby?

My Coven-mates froze.