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Jag blinked hard, clearing his vision enough to ?"

"Yes, Radiant?"

To his surprise, she leaned forward and placed a soft kiss on his cheek "I’ave her a rueful smile "Thanks, Kara I may need it" He’d found the love of his existence, thenhell How could he ever prove to her he’d changed? How could he ever convince her to stay with hi disoriented yet surprisingly war in the wind She knew at once Jag held her, his scent war in his chest As her vision cleared, she looked up to find hi at her with eyes filled withlove

With horror, she realized she was feeding and shut it off fast No, not feeding At least not in her usual way She’d been sending energy out, not pulling it in

"What happened?" Her voice sounded groggy, her mind felt disoriented, and she tried to sit up

To her surprise, Paenther reached for her, helping her until she could slide her arrasped her upper ar’s jaguar armband around her ar’s htened his hold on her "You were feeding us when you fell unconscious We alone?"

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"All dead"

"What about the hue Three are still alive"

"I didn’t kill any of them?"

"No"

She lifted her hand and trailed her knuckles down Jag’s dahe and Hawke?"

Pain darkened his eyes, and he turned his head, pressing a kiss to her pal I’ up to the group "We’re having no luck clearing the minds of the humans One appears to be blind froet into his head to clear his memories And the two females have seen far tooto live?"

"If I heal them The male was never touched, and neither of the female’s injuries is bad I can handle the told them "I asked her to"

"We didn’t want theiven the She sed "I’ve killed thehtened with misery, but she had no illusions Humans could not be allowed to spread word of the ihed "There’s been too much death here already Knock them out and heal them, then we’ll take they Olivia fed theure out a way to clear theirthe’s cheek, relieved, then looked up to aze He stared into her eyes, his own, fathomless pools of emotion

"We need to talk, Liv"

Pamela Palmer Rapture Unta out over the battlefield Olivia straightened as Delaney ran toward thehe connected with me"

"Where are they?" Lyon demanded

"He doesn’t know It’s another void, like the warding in the Mage stronghold He can’t move, can’t see, can’t hear He’s in pain Terrible pain But he’s alive, Lyon He’s alive"

"What about Hawke?"

"He doesn’t know He can’t cohtened "We have to dig them out"

"No" Olivia knew her voice barely carried above the howling wind and rain, but all heard Their gazes swung to her, frowns creasing every brow But she had to explain

They had to know "It won’t work They’re not here The vortex was a kind of wor kept, but digging through earth won’t get you there"

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Olivia felt horrible for dashing her hopes "Mystery - the sorceress - toldas she prepared me She called the vortex a spirit trap Its purpose is to separate the Ferals froar said "They were felled by just such a trap"

Jag growled "So not only are Tighe and Hawke lost to us, but we’re peroatee "It takes eleven days for the trap to separateto Lyon "I’ll be back in ten" Then he turned and took off, running

Delaney lifted tormented eyes to Lyon "Does he have a plan?"

Lyon shook his head, his expression griar has a way to save them, he will"

"Dudes!" The call came from one of the hu," Olivia said softly

His gaze held her tight "Do I have to?"

A sed at her mouth "Please?"

He loosened his hold and helped her up When she was on her feet, she took his hand and pulled hi enough to have all of the their stances to stay on their feet

"What was that?" Jag asked

"Look!" Delaney froze, then took off at a run Where the middle of the vortex used to be, a pile of bodies now lay

The others followed, but while the ether to one side Olivia prayed they wouldn’t find their friends

"Are they humans?" Kara asked