<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">Lucian felt the tug of his spell, and with no words to Alexi he vanished, his usual red smoke and bats replaced by a flash of illusory fire and brimstone. When he arrived at the alley he gave her the most withering look he could and grabbed her arm, teleporting back to the study and tossing her onto the nearby couch. Without thinking he tinged his voice with magic, transforming it back into the deep echoing base that he had used on their father. He only let out one word, but that one word seemed to vibrate the entire study. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“Why?”</span>