Limelight

> > Prof stepped into the light of the soldiers’ weapons. That haggard, broken face seemed to change, his jaw dropping. He seemed to see for the first time that night. So he got to watch as Tia breathed a last ragged breath and died.

> > I knelt, stunned, and barely heard Prof’s roar—his sudden, shocked cry of agony and regret. He tore across the hole in the floor on a field of light, charging past me and Megan, ignoring us as he grabbed Tia.

> > “Heal!” he commanded her. “Heal! I gift it to you!”

> > I held on to Megan, deadened, disbelieving. Tia’s figure remained limp in his hands.

> Chapter 33, Calamity, page 276