Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“Me too,” Biana added.
Fitz nodded. “Today I’m starting a new Vacker legacy!”
“A legacy of fools who get themselves slaughtered while trying to
be heroes,” Gethen noted.
“Seriously,” Ruy added. “You guys haven’t even noticed that one of
the newborns ran off already, heading who knows where.”
They all whipped around, squinting through the darkness beyond
the clearing, to where Sophie had last heard the newborn feasting on
the fallen ogre—and found nothing but silence and shadows.
“The other ogres must’ve gone after it,” Linh said—and she was
probably right. Cadfael and his remaining soldiers were nowhere to be
seen either.
“Just to be safe,” Wylie added, “we need to make sure we’re each
focusing on different directions. This clearing is big, and this property
is even bigger, so if we divide up where we’re keeping lookout—”
“You can watch the beast as it devours you,” Ruy finished for him.
“Genius plan!”
“You’re right!” Tam snapped. “It’s way smarter to send them after
you.” He whispered something in a dark shadowy language, and a
spiral of shadowflux blasted out of his palms, slamming into the
Neverseen’s force field so hard that the glowing energy exploded in a
shower of sparks.
Ruy raised his arms to form another, but Tam was faster, binding
Ruy’s wrists in unnaturally black shadows that seeped under his skin,
turning his fingers as dark as the shadowflux itself. And when Ruy
waved his blackened hands . . .
Nothing.
Not even a flicker of power.