At first, even Levi wasn't convinced it would work. His body remained tense, every instinct on edge. But when he saw the sun rise exactly as she had predicted, and the blinding light completely swallowed the radiance spilling from her hand, he finally allowed himself to exhale.
But Addison had only a narrow window to complete the purification and store the power of light inside the biochemical agents. Once the sun rose past a certain angle, the cover she relied on would disappear. If she were still channeling light when that happened, it would look as though two suns were blazing in the same sky, an anomaly no one could overlook.
