Free Enflame (Book 6) ((Insight) Web of Hearts and Souls) by Jamie Magee

that guides your spirit. I call it from the wind that carries your thoughts. I call it from the earth that claims your ashes...”
    At that moment, images of Landen appeared all around us. I counted sixteen, noticing the different eras of time they reflected, the way he wore his hair, the clothes he wore, the attitude in the blue I loved so much.
    “Remember,” Phoenix demanded as the fire bolted from his hands and encased Landen.
    Each of the images of him stepped into that fire, and one by one they disappeared into his body. When the last one was gone, Landen’s knees buckled beneath him. Instinctively, my energy grasped him, but Phoenix was already there, holding him up.
    “What did you do to him!” I screamed as Landen’s eyes rolled back and his head fell forward.
    “It’s a process,” he half-heartedly answered me. “Darkest room,” he said to Saige.
    “Down the hall, under the stairs.”
    “Break the circle,” he demanded.
    The energy sphere in which we were standing vanished, and in that second Phoenix vanished with Landen in his arms.
    “What did you do !” I bellowed with the thunder that erupted outside.
    Saige glanced at me, then walked to her altar and whispered something before extinguishing the candles there.
    “Listen to me,” she said bleakly. “I don’t know where you have been or what you have been doing, but playtime is over. Too many souls are not at rest.”
    “Yeah, I can name a few billion. And if you think we have been having some kind of party, you’ve lost your mind. We’re trying to save a dimension, and we’ve already paid for whatever curse this is —dearly.”
    “Dearly?” her tone was sharp as she swiftly turned to face me. “Your vessel is intact, so is his. Your souls are strong. Others —they have paid dearly. I can only hope that you have somehow managed to bring us closer and there is not more for us to undo now. The Witnesses give me hope.”
    I only halfway heard her. My insights were searching for Landen. He was only feet away, and his emotions were in balance at this moment, but I felt them intensifying with each second that passed.
    “Where are my friends? What happened with Silas?”
    “Nothing.”
    “What do you mean, ‘nothing’?”
    “I mean nothing. They convinced Guardian that the rising was done to save them, not hurt them.”
    “You were gone a long time. What else?”
    “They were concerned with the actions Silas planned to take against allies of yours.”
    “Draven?”
    “It seems Silas has found a new way to kill him and it was strongly suggested that he not attempt to do so.”
    I grunted, ready to take Silas down myself, but I knew if Landen let him be, then the risk was low to nil for Draven at the moment.
    “Where is Clarissa? Dane?”
    “In The Realm. They will be back soon. Reality takes a lot out of them.”
    As I judged her every word, my gaze eased across her. She spoke the truth.
    “I’ve called a friend. She will be here soon. I’m walking down that hall, and if I figure out that you have hurt Landen or anyone else I care about there will be hell to pay.”
    “Look around you. This is hell. Wait. Never mind. You’ve closed that channel. You see nothing now but your heart and your personal battle.”
    “What is that disdain? I did nothing to you,” I said with a glare that should have humbled the bravest soul.
    “You took him from us. You were foolishly grieving for a false love, and because you were weak, you were manipulated—possessed—when he chose to save you and then failed he left. So excuse me if I have disdain . I don’t care to hear of your troubles. They are nothing compared to the dead that walk with me daily.”
    “I can’t answer for who I was. Frankly, I’m tired of trying to. I’m looking forward. No soul under my watch will ever fall.”
    A gleam of hope scattered across her gray eyes. “Some need to fall.” She looked away from me. “He followed you to death’s door, not only because he