Magic 13

Ajani was partly correct. She didn’t need Thassa’s bridge to cross the void. Even as she spoke, she swung her blade in the ritualized form that focused her spellcasting. She was harnessing the mystical energy that would propel her and Ajani across the expanse.

“I do need something from him,” Elspeth said.

“Kill Xenagos, but forget Erebos,” Ajani insisted. “He was forced to open the gates to heaven for you. That’s victory enough.”

“It’s not enough,” Elspeth said.

With a graceful motion, she dashed to the edge and leaped toward the fire on the other side. Infused with her spell, Ajani followed her off the precipice, and for the fleeting second that crossed the gulf, they felt weightless and unbound by the laws of physics. To humans watching from the mortal realm, they appeared as two constellations chasing after the firelight in an otherwise empty sky.

Journey Into Nyx: Godsend, Part II, Chapter 15