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"You’re wasting your strength that way The way you’ve been doing it, you need two strikes--one for a man’s shield and one for the inner barriers Plus you’re feeding the shields"
Jared ground his teeth "I know that"
"Stop feeding the shields"
"If I do that, they’ll fall in a rimly "Then a minute’s all you have A fast descent to your core, coth in a half circle" He drew a ser "Keep the baseline directly in front of you Then fan out the Red in front of that line If you unleash in a circle, you’ll take out all of us as well as the like that What if I can’t control it that way?"
"Then, if we’re lucky, we’ll all be destroyed completely," Randolf replied harshly "If we’re not lucky, you’ll be looking at a lot of e husks" His hand clamped down on Jared’s aret squeamish It’s a fast kill We need to cut the odds" The hand on Jared’s aruts out afterward"
Not understanding that last coain, took a deep breath, turned inward, and dove into the abyss
Except during his training when he’d been mentally tethered to an instructor, he’d never made a fast dive down to his core, his inner web The speed and the panicky feeling that he was falling and out of control terrified hih his inner web, at best he’d cut himself off from his oer and destroy his ability to wear the Jewels; at worst, he’d shatter his own aining speed
White, Yellow
He was falling too fast But there was no tier Eye, Rose
If he failed, Lia
Summer-sky, Purple Dusk
A woman had screamed
Opal, Green
A wo, let the Warlord in hied instantly froe dive His heartbeat drum kept the slow, steady rhythathered his strength, preparing to make the turn just above his inner web
This is what Blood e The mind cleared of all distractions A lifetime was contained between heartbeats He had all the tian his ascent Above hi, Jewel-colored stars, as candle flames that were about to be snuffed out by a wild Red wind He drew athe half circle the way Randolf had told him
As he continued to rise, he waited, waited
A few Opals, but nothing stronger
As he rose to the level of the Green, he unleashed the Red, flooding those smaller containers until they burst from within
Up, up, up Jewel stars exploded Above the White were the colorless candles of the non-Jeweled Blood He snuffed the into his ar the hand, he turned and made another leisurely descent Not so deep this tio deep The Red still throbbed in his blood
"Enough, Jared," a harsh voice yelled in his ear
He understood it now Create a frame around the Jewel stars Hold the poithin that fra the boulders on the other side of the road
A box A neat box to hold those little candles Histhe psychic scent, he pulled the fraain
More Jewel stars burst Died
A fist clipped his chin, snapping his head back
Snarling, Jared twisted to face whoever dared interfere with hirim acceptance
Jared blinked
The heartbeat drum sped up
Before he are of it, he slid away froain and looked around
Randolf hadn’t told hiht also manifest as physical destruction
Jared stared at the shattered faces, the exploded heads
Breaking away fro hands, Jared leaned over the boulder that had been giving the, callused hand covered his forehead Another hand soothingly rubbed his back
"You could have told ain
"Would have , Jared tried to spit out the sick taste He straightened up slowly
Randolf took a step back
"Have you ever done that?" Jared asked, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand
Randolf nodded "Yeah I’ve done it There are good reasons why the dark-Jeweled Blood are feared, Jared"
A blast of power striking a nearby boulder reminded them that the battle wasn’t over
Jared threw a Red shield around both of the a place that would hide therudging adainst her, the Black Widow is stillto hold that Green shield"