"Everyone link hands NOW!" Emma screamed as the shadow seeds inside her family began to pulse with dark energy.
Jake was fighting it in the mountains, his wolf form flickering between normal brown and sickly black. Through the family bond, she could hear him growling in pain.
"I can't... stop it..." he gasped. "It's taking over my thoughts!"
Lily was worse. Her healing magic had turned backward, and everywhere she touched, flowers were dying instead of blooming. "Help me!" she cried. "I'm hurting everything!"
Emma wiped blood from her nose. Using her power to save Kael had drained her almost completely. But she had to try something before Shadow Emma's corruption spread through all of them.
"Listen to me!" she called out through the family bond. "We need to combine our powers while we still can!"
"How?" Darian asked from the frozen wasteland. His voice sounded strange, like someone else was talking through him. "We're scattered across seven different worlds!"
