I nod, understanding and crossing to the bed, climbing onto it to sit between them. Jesse turns more fully towards me so that we make a neat little triangle.

"What are you thinking, Midnight?" I ask softly, wanting her full opinion.

“I'm thinking that it's a bad choice either way,” she grumbles, crossing her arms and sinking back into the pillows. "If I let you clear my darkness and take my powers then the nice professor won't want me to be his spy student anymore, because I'll be useless. And if I keep them, then King Dominic says I can't be in the school anyway!" Her voice gets squeaky with grief on the final words and my heart wrenches for her.

"And what I am trying to say," Jesse says, a bit between his teeth. "Is that she doesn't even know how many of her powers are tied to her corruption. It's very likely that she was gifted powers as a child that have nothing to do with it! But she won't even talk to me about trying to find out -"

"I wont be made useless!" Midnight hisses, leaning forward to glare at Jesse. "I won't just be some tiny, powerless girl! I won't do it!"

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