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Too bad uard started to hover even more when I didn’t answer

Perfect

“I’, Felix,” I whispered so I wouldn’t disturb the techies, the other operatives, or the Elders hustling around us, everyone wearing headsets and talking to our group of Mysticals currently in the heat of battle “Leave” I put a bit of o away so I could focus on not collapsing on the floor of the tent ere in

He stiffened I could tell he didn’t want to go Felix anting an affirive hinored hiave me on the current coordinates of our people versus the Coed on Felix eventually backed away

Flicking through the sheets, I swiped , the block of ice I had beco been chipped away these past five hours as the pain of the labor had intensified Right noasn’t the arctic Queen I had become I wasn’t the way I needed to be The way I had to be to keep me sane

After listening to Commander Lyons ask for my opinion on field position, I responded, “Sweep the north end Elder Farrar,” ah, there was the ice, a breeze sweeping throughthe target I want you to hold the north for any Coms that will more than likely flee in that direction”

“Hostages?” Commander Lyons asked with a chuckle

I felt nothing Just saying the naht of as ‘Dad’ once upon a tihofficial before they get to you Take their leader as hostage, so I can interrogate hiain quietly, “and kill the rest” I snapped the paperwork closed, a contraction shattering the ice, heat floodinghand on the desk near es they had acquired outside Southport” Their hostages were a group of Mysticals that had only included two elderly grandparents trying to flee with their five grandchildren — after the children’s parents had been hanged on flagpoles by the Com army here as a blatant ‘fuck you’ to our forces that were kicking their asses “We need to show them what a ‘fuck you’ really is”

Quiet, then dead seriousness “Understood, Queen Ruckler”

My lips pinched as I felt a sudden heaviness betweenover the relay with you” I pressed ether to keep frolanced at Bindi as I leaned heavily on the table, barely able to see her because my vision was so blurry No answer came over the headset “I need an affirmative that you heard me, Commander Lyons?”

“You’re leaving co bewildered

He probably was, since I never left during a battle “I have to take care of soed the headset off, thrusting it against a surprised Co hilers You’re now his relay” I left it at that, slowly turned, and began walking as gently as I was breathing so I didn’t faint I was no stranger to pain, having been shot and stabbedto pinpoints This raw, agonizing pain was on a whole other level A whole other stratosphere, if I was honest withdecided ht noanted to drop in the h I treat him

Bindi was instantly next tome outside the black tent into the camp, away from the few individuals who had taken notice of my incoherent state I wore a charnancy from all eyes but his and Bindi’s, and the added heartbeat inside me from Vampires’ ears, but I still must have looked like shit because those who had eyed me had worn expressions of worry I hardly reer had beenemotions since a spelled mind sweep had been done on me