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Tony looked up from his book as the door to Wong’s rooms opened. The tired tread of Wong’s footsteps preceded the door shutting and a heavy sigh escaping. It’d very clearly been a long day.
But then, Tony knew most of Wong’s days were long, these days. Tony wished he could help take some of that stress away. Guilt twisted in him. But as much as he’d tried, over the years, to not add to Wong’s stress, today he was doing just that.
He set the book down quietly, pushing up on one hand to look at Wong over the side of the couch. Wong had his eyes closed, leaning back against the door. “Long day?” he asked.
Wong didn’t startle, though Tony knew he hadn’t realized Tony was there. A small smile tugged at Wong’s lips as his eyes opened and he found Tony on the couch.
“Always,” Wong admitted. “And yours?”
“Boring, for once,” Tony said. “No business meetings, no supervillain threats, and no unholy tantrums from the demon posing as my daughter.” A grin tugged at his lips at that and he let it escape.
Wong snorted. “It can’t be worse than her terrible twos.” Wong had only ever seen a few of those temper tantrums, but he’d pulled Tony aside once and asked if Tony was quite certain Tony didn’t Wong to check her for demon possession. Kids weren’t really Wong’s thing.
Tony pushed himself off the couch, moving around it so that he could lean against the back of it instead. He kept most of the room between the two of them. It was almost a game, of sorts, to see who would take that first step every time. Tony did, more often than not—he didn’t exactly practice restraint—but the ‘loss’ was compensated by the way it made Wong’s tension ease, the hidden smiles and quiet contentment.
No, that always made it feel like he’d won something.
“True,” Tony said, refocusing back on Morgan. “Those days still give me nightmares. But she’s got a temper, when she wants to. I think she gets it from Pepper.”
Wong rolled his eyes. Wong had clearly never seen Pepper when she’d gotten going. Tony loved Pepper, but she could be a terror. “And I suppose when she’s adorable, she gets that from you?”
Tony kept his laugh contained. “Aw, you think I’m adorable?” He pressed a hand to his chest. “And here I thought you were incapable of saying nice things to me. I may have to write that in my journal.” He paused, considering. “Once I get FRIDAY to set me up with a journal.”
“Journaling is an excellent method for introspection and self-awareness,” Wong said blandly. He sent Tony an unimpressed look. “Are you quite certain the skill isn’t beyond you?”
Tony snorted. “There we go. I knew that you couldn’t stay nice to me for more than a minute. An excellent return to form. You know, sometimes I think you don’t want me here.”
The words twisted in him with familiar regret. He knew, of course, what he was to Wong. Knew he was nothing more than Wong’s attempt to hold onto something he’d lost. But sometimes he tried to convince himself he was more than that.
Wong rolled his eyes again, but he crossed the space between them. Tony’s tension eased a little as Wong pressed in close to kiss him, one of the rare times when Wong initiated the intimacy between them. “I always want you here,” Wong admitted, when he finally pulled back. One of those lies that Tony thought Wong might have convinced himself he actually believed.
Tony hadn’t quite meant for this thing between him and Wong to happen. He and Pepper had always had an open relationship. Pepper had even dated Rhodey at one point while they’d been together, though that had been more a fling than anything. Pepper’s current boyfriend was an accountant with truly atrocious taste in bowties. Pepper thought it was adorable, though, so Tony said nothing about Jason’s taste—or lack thereof.
But Tony had taken advantage of their relationship much less. It was harder. People knew Pepper, but she managed to avoid most of the spotlight Tony was stuck under.
He hadn’t pursued Wong, not really. At first, he’d only been trying to help. He’d seen Wong’s expression when Tony had recovered enough from his trip to space to find him and tell him what had happened to Strange. Wong had looked gutted, like the ground had fallen out from beneath his feet. Tony had known immediately that Strange and Wong had been something to each other.
Tony had just wanted to help. Strange had died because he’d saved Tony’s life. Tony had… he’d needed to do something for Strange in the aftermath. If he could help Wong, then maybe…
Wong had told him, once when he’d been drunk, that he thought Tony and Strange would be friends. “Too much alike in all the best ways,” Wong had said, staring at his whiskey, shoulders slumped in grief.
Tony hadn’t been sure if he should stop coming by or if he should come by more often. He wasn’t sure which would help.
He hadn’t stopped visiting.
It’d just been friendship, an attempt at comfort, until Tony had mentioned Jason and Pepper and Wong had started looking at him with questions in his eyes.
By that point, a part of Tony had loved Wong, and… and he knew what Wong wanted. Knew he could give it to him.
Tony would never be Strange. But Wong couldn’t have Strange. A shadow would do in the aftermath.
Except now…
Tony pushed the thought aside. He’d get there in a moment. “Why do you think I keep coming back?” he asked, aiming to tease. “You know how much I like being wanted.”
A snort escaped Wong. “That has nothing to do with me, and far more to do with your stubborn nature and your incessant need to mother everyone in sight.”
“I do not mother you,” Tony protested. “You’d absolutely murder me if I tried.” Wong didn’t tolerate anyone trying to manage him.
“If I were to murder you,” Wong said, tone pointedly mild. “You wouldn’t see it coming. And it wouldn’t be hard, either.”
Probably true.
It was probably the best opening Tony could hope for. “About that.”
Wong froze, unease flashing through his eyes. “About that? You mean your eventual murder?” Wong hummed. “How morbid.”
Tony huffed a laugh. Morbid. One word for it. “Yeah, well, we’re about to get a little morbid.” He tried to gather his thoughts. “Rogers, Romanoff, and Lang showed up at the cabin a little bit ago.” He took a deep breath. “They had an idea. Kind of preposterous. Definitely not safe. Maybe universe altering. Absolutely beyond their current skill level.”
Wong stared, jaw clenched. “I assume this is pertinent.”
Tony looked away, examining the picture on the wall just behind Wong. A two-headed centaur in battle with a huge scorpion-looking thing. “There was one way,” he said, words catching in his throat. “That’s what Strange said. That there was one path to victory, that there was no other way than to let it all happen.”
“You’ve told me this before,” Wong said, unease in his voice. “I do not see the relevance.”
Wong no doubt did, he was just in denial.
“The other Avengers want to travel through time,” Tony said. “Using the quantum realm as their path.” Wong froze and Tony forced himself to continue. “There were a few issues, obviously. Details to work out so that we were traveling through time instead of letting time travel through us, but, uh…” He met Wong’s gaze for a split second before looking away and back to the bizarre painting. “I figured it out.” He tried to smirk. “Which, I mean, obviously, because it’s me and I can figure out anything.”
It had never felt so much like a curse.
“To what intent?” Wong asked. “The quantum realm does not contain the abilities inherent to the time stone. Travel through the quantum realm is not reversal. The quantum realm isn’t capable of that. You cannot undo what’s been done.”
“No,” Tony agreed. “A bit more complicated than that.” And much simpler, at the same time. “But if we had the stones… we could find a mid point. We could keep what we have and bring back what we lost.”
Find the stones, bring them back to the future, return what they’d lost, send the stones back.
Save everyone.
“And you think that this, this is the only way that Stephen saw?” Wong asked, sounding mildly horrified.
Tony wondered himself. Could a desperate heist through time really have been the best possible future. How could it be? What else had Strange seen?
“I think it’s been five years and this is the first bit of hope we’ve had,” Tony said quietly, an ache in his chest. “It’s a chance we’ve got to take.” He took a deep breath, centering himself. “It’s a chance I’ve got to take.” He met Wong’s gaze again. “Wong, I need…” He paused. “I need you to promise me something.”
Wong looked paralyzed. “You know I don’t make promises I don’t know the details of.”
Tony swallowed hard and rubbed at his face. “Yeah, I know. I need… I need you to promise me you’ll look after Morgan and Pepper for me when this is all over.” Wong already carried all of Kamar-Taj. Tony didn’t want to add to that, but… but Tony trusted Wong.
Wong inhaled sharply. “You’re not dying.”
If only it were that simple. “I think we both know that’s not true,” Tony said quietly. “I got lucky, once. But this…”
“You’re not dying,” Wong repeated, grief in his voice. “Stephen saved you for a reason. He didn’t save you just to place you on the sacrificial altar.”
Tony shrugged. “Maybe,” he said. “But you can’t deny that what I’m doing isn’t a risk.”
“Not one you need to take,” Wong argued. The hypocrite. “The Avengers are more than capable of performing this task without you, now that you’ve solved their problem, whatever that was.”
“Time-space GPS,” Tony answered. “And I can’t leave them to do this alone.” Who knew what might go wrong, what help they might need. “It’s…” He rubbed at his face, exhausting tugging at him. “I have to do this. You know that.”
Wong didn’t answer immediately. “You would not be you, if you did not,” he acknowledged finally.
Tony tried to smile. “Which is why I’m asking… if something goes wrong—” and he knew, deep down, that something would, ”—take care of them, please? Pepper, she trusts you. Morgan adores you. They’ll… they’ll let you in. Let you help.”
He knew it wasn’t fair to ask this of Wong. But… But Tony needed the peace of mind to know Pepper and Morgan would be okay if—when—he left them behind.
“I will,” Wong said, exhaustion in his voice. Tony fought his own guilt. “But don’t start planning your funeral, just yet. Nothing says that you’re somehow guaranteed to die.”
“Maybe not,” Tony said, trying to sound like he believed it. “Maybe it’s just paranoia.”
“You really should do something about that,” Wong said. “Paranoia is rather detrimental to your health.” The words came out sounding pained.
Tony snorted. “I’ll do my best.” He tried to smile. He knew he’d just added to the weight Wong carried, but there was something he could do, now, to lessen it. “And hey, if this works… When this works. Strange’ll be back.”
Wong’s eyes widened, mouth opening in a quiet gasp.
“If,” Wong whispered.
“When,” Tony corrected. He leaned forward and kissed Wong again, tried to make it a promise. “I’m bringing him back to you, Wong.” It was almost a relief. Strange had saved Tony, now Tony got to save Strange. It made it easier to ask Wong for this favor, when he knew that Wong’s grief would be so easily beaten back by Wong’s joy.
No one needed a shadow when they had the real thing.
“You two are going to be happy,” Tony promised.
Hope shined in Wong’s eyes. “You’re not going to die,” Wong told him.
Tony smiled as though he believed Wong.
They both knew he didn’t.
-_-
Wong sat on the edge of the bed, leaning forward to rest his elbow on his knees so that he could properly bury his face in his hands.
The cremation had been today. Pepper had asked him to come, grief in her voice when she said that Wong had been important to Tony, that Tony would want him there. Wong had gone, because how could he not? Not when he’d loved Tony. Not when he’d promised Tony he’d look after Pepper and Morgan.
He’d ended up with Morgan in his arms as Pepper had broken down in Rhodey’s arms and Happy comforted the two Parkers. Wong’s tunic was still stained with tears where Morgan had buried her face into his shoulder and cried her own tears.
Wong’s eyes had remained dry, tears held at bay by a numbness that had spread throughout every inch of his soul since the battle at the compound.
The memorial would take place tomorrow, and Wong dreaded going already. He could still remember Tony in Wong’s rooms only weeks ago, talking about his death as though it was foretold.
Maybe it had been.
Because Tony was gone, now, just as he’d expected. All Wong had was memories. It didn’t feel like it could ever be enough.
The door opened, a slight shift of noise followed by the slight creak of footsteps on the floorboards. The bed shifted as someone—as Stephen—sat in the spot next to him. Stephen didn’t say anything, but his shoulder pressed against Wong’s own in comfort.
Wong’s breath caught in his throat. Stephen. Despite everything, something in his chest turned warm and a pain he’d carried for years eased. It had nearly killed him, losing Stephen, even if duty had required that Wong push forward, regardless.
In the aftermath, he’d found Tony.
Now the fates had shifted and Wong had what he’d lost back, and had lost what he’d found.
The grief tainted the joy.
But the joy was still there. Stephen was back.
There hadn’t been much time in the last few days for more than a brief reunion. The stabilization of the world around them had come first.
“Was it truly the only way?” Wong asked, hating the pain in his voice, the way he could not hide the depths of his grief.
Stephen sighed. “That’s complicated,” he admitted. “It was a way, but…” he paused. “I would not say it was a true victory.”
No, Wong wouldn’t either. But Stephen’s words brought up far more questions than it answered. He straightened, turning to look at Stephen. His face was drawn and a heavy grief echoed through his eyes. Wong wondered which grief weighed heaviest on Stephen’s shoulders. “Not a true victory. What does that mean?” he asked.
“I… There was a victory,” he said. “A true one. The only one I would have considered real. But there were… lesser victories, bandaids over the wound. We found one of those.”
Wong frowned. If that was true… “You gave away the stone.”
“It was the only option left,” Stephen said. “We missed the chance at the true victory and I had to move to the backup, and the backup, and the backup.” Frustration brimmed in his eyes. “I swear, Wong, every time I had a choice, I made the best choice available to me to reach the next best possible outcome. By the time I gave away the stone, it was the only way. I… There was a chance that Maximoff would have destroyed more than just the mind stone. She might have destroyed them all while holding Thanos back.”
“Except she didn’t, Thanos still had the time stone.” And Maximoff’s sacrifice had never mattered.
Stephen nodded. “After, there was a chance that a different fifty percent of the population died and things would have been fixed sooner, before the problem could get quite so bad. Except…” He closed his eyes, as though trying to contain his grief. “But it happened the way it did. By the time I came back…” he paused. “I couldn’t tell him,” Stephen said, a terrible admission in his voice. “Tony asked if we’d made it, if we had managed to find that one way… and I had to let him believe that we had. I couldn’t let him…” He swallowed. “There was a fifty-fifty chance he snapped. Carol… she might have been able to avoid being knocked out by the power stone. She would have taken the stones from Tony, she would have survived it all. But when Thanos used the power stone on her, she didn’t…” Stephen shook his head. “Tony was all that was left.”
Wong’s emotions curdled in his chest. “And by then, there was no other way.” Just as when Stephen had given away the time stone there had been no other way. Not a true victory, just a band aid over the gaping wound.
“I couldn’t let him die knowing we’d failed,” Stephen said, grief in his voice. “I couldn’t… I had to give him that peace.”
Wong hated it; somehow the truth of it pierced even deeper than if Tony truly had been fated to die. Yet he couldn’t blame Stephen. Couldn’t truly blame anyone except Thanos. And he understood, if he had been in Stephen’s place, he thought he’d have chosen the same course of action in allowing Tony to die believing they’d won. “You made the right choice.”
It felt, for a moment, like a curse that Wong could not help but fall in love with those people who took the world on their shoulders. Because the world always, inevitably crushed them.
It had crushed Stephen.
It had crushed Tony.
Stephen’s laugh was bitter. “If I had, we’d have won on Titan,” he said. “If I’d just… If I’d just managed it then.” Anger brimmed in his voice, self-hatred. “Except I didn’t, and the universe paid the price for it.”
“You didn’t fail alone,” Wong said. “We all did.”
Stephen snorted. “You didn’t have anything to do with it. You can shake any thoughts of failure away.”
“And maybe that was my failure,” Wong said. “Perhaps I should have found a way to follow you to Titan. Or perhaps I should have given the care of the Sanctum to another and gone to Wakanda to aid in the fight there. Perhaps…” He sighed. “Perhaps it’d have changed everything.” Perhaps it’d have changed nothing.
Stephen rubbed at his face, the shake in his hands visible and exaggerated from its normal tremor, a sign that Stephen’s pain was worse than normal. Wong focused on it, focused on the few things he could make better, now. “We should get you some pain medication,” he said. “And perhaps a warm compress.”
“I’m fine.”
“You’re in pain,” Wong corrected. He knew, though, that wouldn’t be enough to sway Stephen. Especially while thoughts of failure were so heavy and Stephen’s need to punish himself exacerbated his occasional lack of self care. “I need to do this,” he said instead. “It’s been… I lost you for five years, Stephen.” The words caught in his throat and he leaned forward to press a kiss to Stephen’s lips.
Five years later, and it felt as right as it had then, even as it left a different sort of ache. He’d lost this, once. He’d thought, before, that he understood the costs that their life might demand of them, but he hadn’t. He’d never fully realized how easily that could happen. Now he did, twice over. He pushed back the thoughts, focusing again on Stephen.
“Let me do this,” he pleaded.
As he’d expected, it was enough for Stephen to nod, reluctance still visible in his face but not enough for Stephen to deny Wong this.
Stephen followed him down to the kitchen and Wong found the pain medication and the compress, still stored where they’d been five years ago. Wong had never had the strength to remove them and the temporary Sanctum Master had left them there, Wong’s need too visible, too obvious. He examined the medication. They’d probably need updated medication. These had no doubt expired and could have very well lost their potency. But it was what they had available right now.
Wong heated the compress before he joined Stephen at the table; the silence stretched between them. A strange mix of pain and relief lay below the surface. They’d lost. Wong could never escape that knowledge. Except Stephen was back. They could still heal. The world could. They could.
Wong could only hope that he could, too.
Even if right now it felt so very impossible.
-_-
Dread sunk heavy in Stephen’s chest as Rhodes and Rogers whispered fiercely between themselves only a few feet away, either ignorant or uncaring of Wong’s and Stephen’s presence so close.
The memorial service had ended and Stephen had been in the process of leaving to return to the Sanctum with Wong when he’d heard the first whispered. “—it’s worse than you can imagine.”
Stephen expected that was true for Rogers. For Stephen… Stephen had seen far too much, now, for anything to truly be worse than what he could imagine.
He glanced at the lake, where Tony’s ashes had been spread and his first arc reactor had drifted across the water out of view. Though some things, while imaginable, were still so much worse to experience than to acknowledge as possible.
“We can’t even estimate how bad it is,” Rhodes was saying, now. “There’s hardly a proper census on those that came back. We’re counting bodies, right now.”
Oh god. Stephen felt sick. Please, no, please let it not be true. He’d had so few chances to see beyond this point, but he was not ignorant to human nature. He’d just hoped…
“Why would they…” Rogers shook his head. “How many bodies are we talking?”
“Upwards of thousands,” Rhodes said. Nausea lurched in Stephen’s gut. “And that’s in New York alone.” Rhodes shook his head. “People are confused and afraid. They see the returned and… and they see a threat. A threat to their homes and their livelihoods and the peace that we found, tainted as it was.”
“Who is doing this?” Rogers asked. “This can’t be everyone. We brought back their families, their loved ones.”
One person’s loved one was another person’s obstacle, though. One person’s salvation was another person’s threat.
“Different groups are amassing,” Rhodes said, exhaustion in his voice. “Survivors First, Protect the New Reality, God’s Chosen, Flag Smashers, a few more.”
Rogers looked like someone had taken a knife and stabbed him in the gut. Stephen sympathized, because the knife in his own gut twisted. This couldn’t truly be the path the world had chosen to take. They couldn’t have truly chosen destruction over healing. “What’s the plan? We can’t do nothing!”
“What are we supposed to do, Rogers?” Rhodes snapped back. “We did this. This was our choice. And try as we might, we can’t fight every battle out there. We can’t stop every attack.”
A hand on Stephen’s arm pulled him back and he looked over to see Wong watching him. Wong pulled him back, away from Rogers and Rhodes’ whispered conversation. It didn’t matter, Stephen had already heard enough.
“Did you—” Wong started, then stopped. Stephen knew what he was asking. If Stephen had seen this far ahead, if this was just another time when the world had had a choice and the worst choice had been made. If there were alternatives where the world didn’t turn on themselves.
There had to be, didn’t there? There had to be a world where things didn’t go wrong.
By the Vishanti, how many people had they brought back, only for them to be murdered in a world that had changed in the blink of an eye? Saved only to be slaughtered. How many people had spent their last few days confused and terrified and holding on to a promise that things would get better only for it to end.
“I didn’t know,” Stephen whispered. But he wasn’t truly surprised, either. He’d seen too much of humanity, now, to doubt how terrible it could be. Why, why did they always break themselves?
“Stephen—” Wong stopped. He led them a little further away. Undoubtedly to ensure that they weren’t overheard the way Rogers and Rhodes’ conversation had been. “This isn’t your fault, Stephen,” he said finally. “This isn’t… People have choices.”
Choices. Choices. “Why do we keep making all the wrong ones?” he asked. “Why do we keep breaking ourselves?”
Humanity could be so very beautiful, Stephen had seen that. He had seen the very, very best of humanity. But it was overshadowed by the worst of it. Especially now.
“I don’t know,” Wong admitted. “But there’s nothing we can do.”
Nothing they could do. Stephen was exhausted of being in the position of there being nothing he could do. Tired of finding himself with only one choice available if he was going to have even a semblance of a chance to save the world.
And what a world he’d ended up saving. A world that didn’t care. A world that would rip itself apart instead of attempt to heal.
Stephen had fooled himself if he’d ever believed they could truly heal after what Thanos had done when he’d ripped apart reality with the infinity stones.
He froze, the thought twisting. The infinity stones.
They had ripped the world apart. What the Avengers had done had been a bandaid over the wound, but what if the wound never came?
He met Wong’s gaze. “Except there is,” he whispered. “There is something we can do.” Wong’s eyes widened in understanding. Stephen pushed on. “The stones are still here.” They could fix this. No. They could stop it from ever happening. Of course, they could also make it worse. A bitter laugh escaped Stephen, because could they really? “At this point, we can’t make things much worse, can we?”
Wong didn’t seem to have an answer for that. His gaze drifted away from Stephen, looking out over the lake.
Stephen’s gaze followed Wong’s to the waterfront. They’d laid Tony’s ashes—Tony’s heart—to rest there on the waterfront. Just one of so many people who shouldn’t have had to die.
His heart clenched. Because they could save so many people. They could save Tony.
He wondered if Wong would understand the way Stephen longed for that one life, beyond so many others. It wasn’t the deciding factor, by any means—not with so many lives on the line—but Stephen could not deny the strength of it. He’d have never risked everything just for one life, no matter how precious to him. But…
Stephen looked back at Wong, saw the conflict and desperation and hope and fear in his eyes.
Wong met his gaze again. “It’s a risk,” Wong said.
The weight of the choice could so easily bury them.
“It’s a chance,” Stephen countered, tone fierce. All they needed was a chance. They could do so much with just a chance.
Wong smiled slightly at the words. “You’ve always been so good at seeing those,” Wong said quietly. “But perhaps…” he closed his eyes. “Perhaps it’s a chance we have to take.”
He looked around at the group surrounding them. Stephen wondered if he saw the same thing Stephen did. The grief, the loss, the fear.
His gaze flicked to the waterfront again. They’d lost so much, and the losses would keep coming.
Did they really have any other choice?
He waited, though. Stephen’s choice was made, but if there was anyone who could convince Stephen to let it go, it was Wong.
Wong turned back to him. “We’ll have to move quickly,” he said. “They’ve already started fixing the machine. Rogers will be taking the stones back soon.”
Stephen nodded. “We go now.” There would be no point in saying goodbye to anyone and Stephen didn’t want to risk anyone trying to stop them.
It didn’t take long, Wong said something to Pepper, too quiet for Stephen to hear, and then they were headed into the cabin and Wong was leading them down into the basement to the lab where they’d put the stones for safekeeping.
Stephen watched as Wong unlocked the lab, a strange ease to the movement that Stephen didn’t have time to decipher.
The stones seemed to call for them where they sat in a box on the table. They moved quickly. It would be easier to use some sort of gauntlet, but with the proper spell work, the power could be balanced another way.
Wong took mind, space, and power his magic balancing them in the space between them. Stephen did the same with soul, time, and reality.
“To just before Asgard fell,” Wong said. “If we can save Asgard, retrieve the tesseract, then we buy ourselves the time we need.”
Without the space stone Thanos would not be able to retrieve either the reality stone or the soul stone with the ease he had the first time. It would give them the time they needed. And with the addition of Asgard’s armies, they would have the force they needed to withstand the armies of Thanos.
Stephen nodded. Their act had to be two-fold. They needed to send themselves back in time and the stones back to their own realities to the moment they’d been taken.
It was in many ways a safer way to return the stones compared to the plan to send someone back. Of course, it would kill someone to do it this way, and no one had wanted to do that.
But Stephen and Wong didn’t need to survive, not really. Their bodies could be ripped apart here and now, just so long as their souls survived.
“Are you ready?” Stephen asked. “There’s no going back.”
Wong smirked. “There’s only going back.”
Stephen caught Wong’s hand, channeling energy. Together, they both tapped into their stones, forming their desire into the energy. Stephen took a deep breath and reached for the time stone, the stone at the center of their spell.
He wrapped his hand around it and wished.
A rainbow of color exploded as each stone’s power went into the spell.
Pain ripped through him. Stephen screamed, felt himself start to rip apart. Wong’s strength buoyed his, but it… It wasn’t enough. They weren’t going to be enough. They were going to be ripped apart and the world left to trudge on to its self-destruction.
From within the stones, something latched on, infusing strength into the spell.
Stephen caught hold of it, held tightly as he reinforced his spell.
The world went white.