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As he opened his wings to their full span, he felt a hot-cold tingle fro of Honor

She stepped back, satisfied "This shield is braided into the protective shield already contained in the Ring You could drain your Jewels to the breaking point, and it will still hold around you It’s fixed about a foot out froht without endangering each other Butelse you don’t want to daes in Ebon Rih, Lucivar knew the landen village and surrounding land fairly well Plenty of low hills and woodland within striking distance of the village--perfect hiding places for a Jhinka raiding party

The Jhinka were a fierce, winged people ether by a dozen tribal chiefs Like the Eyriens, they were native to Askavi, but they were s-lived Eyriens The two races had hated each other for as long as either of thee of Craft, the Jhinka had the advantage of numbers Once drained of his psychic power and the reserves in the Jewels, an Eyrien warrior was as vulnerable as any otherthe slaughter required to bring down an ene to meet an Eyrien in battle

With two exceptions One walked aray Jewels

"All right," Lucivar said "We’ll run on this White radial thread until we’re past the village, then drop from the Winds and come in fast from the other side If this is a Jhinka raid, I’ll handle it If it’s so else"

She just looked at hiive whoever is ret it"

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Dropping frolided toward the peaceful-looking village still a o in fast," Jaenelle said on a psychic thread

"I also said we’d do this my way," Lucivar replied sharply

"There’s pain and need down there, Lucivar"

There was also the foulness that now eluded hier sense it, would never have sensed it if he’d sie, made him uneasy He would have stu down there

He felt the predator wake in her at the sae at full speed Swearing, he folded his wings and dove after her just as hundreds of Jhinka appeared out of nowhere, screeching their battle cries as they tried to surround hi Craft to enhance his speed, Lucivar drove through the Jhinka swar the screa an Eyrien war cry, he unleashed the power in his Ebon-gray Jewels in short, controlled bursts

Jhinka bodies exploded into a bloody h the bottoth froround "Cat!"

"Come down theAvoid the side streets They’refouled There’s a shielded building at the other end of the village"

Flying low, Lucivar swung toward the e boundary at top speed, and swore every curse he knew as his shield brushed against the psychic witch store The shield sizzled like drops of cold water flicked into a hot pan All the ensnaring psychic threads flared as if they were physical threads h the already contracting tunnel Jaenelle had created as she passed through the witch storht up with her a block away fro A fast psychic probe showed him the parameters of the domed, oval-shaped shield that protected a two-story stone building and ten yards of ground all around it

Fourtheir ar, "Go back! Get away from here!"

Behind the men, thousands of Jhinka rose fro the sky until they blotted out the sun