Chapter 492

• The strange, electric flow continued to run between them, but didn't blind her with a flood of sensation and information anymore. Whatever it was, it'd settled down to something ignorable.
• She scaled up her brother's arm, waist, good shoulder, and got her hands onto the metal beam that connected her balcony floor to the floor above. It was covered in huge jagged spikes, and the spikes were covered in torn bits of flesh where they'd once been covered in the spire's muscle and bone wall. She got her hands around the curves of some spikes for a better grip, dangled from both hands, and looked down again.
• The blackness looked at her.