Ursula found Dan’s hand when she was sure that Asser’s back was turned. ‘Thank you for following me through the Veil and for coming back for me.’ ‘Did you ever think I’d do anything else?’ he said. She had thought that, of course she had. He had abandoned her in the hospital, barely spoken to her once they were back in school. She changed the subject. ‘What’s with the bear?’ ‘I turn berserker like I did in Macsen’s land and then I really want to kill someone. It’s not like before. It’s changed me. When I’m the bear I want to kill.’ He paused to get himself back under control. ‘I hate it, Ursula. Asser’s not wrong – it feels like a kind of possession, and yet I need it. Without the bear I would not have survived here. Does that make sense?’ She squeezed his hand and nodded. He was not as ignorant of his own condition as she’d feared. She could see the dark magic of the bear like a shadow over him. Between them she and Asser had made the shadow a little less black, but the magic of this world had given his darkest self a physical form and she did not think Dan would ever be free of it while the magic endured.
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