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"Will Medichi and Parisa be here?" Jean-Pierre asked

Thorne pursed his lips Medichi used to serve as a Warrior of the Blood but with his recent coations "I don’t think so Endelle has the pair of thened with her I think they’re in Soaze over the outdoor chapel "This place is too open"

"I agree That’s why I asked all the warriors to co to do" He suddenly put a hand to his forehead and squeezed his eyes shut

"Hey What is it?"

Jean-Pierre opened his eyes and looked at nothing in particular He see hard After a moment, he said, "Rien Iout to me with her mind"

"You don’t have a telepathic link, do you?"

"Non, pas du tout She would not allow it"

"Well, shit What the hell does it ray like the ocean "She has e I have felt for weeks now"

Oh, God "You knohat that means?"

"Yes The enemy ant her"

"Or want her dead"

"Oui"

Jean-Pierre saw a large shirounds Once more he drew his sword into his hand, but Thorne told him to take a chill-pill, an expression he still did not quite understand

And there she ith her daughter next to her

Fiona now stood on the far side of the outdoor chapel, with Seriffe’s faed him with only a dip of her pretty chin She wasmad Alhen he saw her, he wanted to run to her, slide his arainst his to her

God have aze away from her

Thorne told him to put his sword away and relax, because the rest of the warriors were on the way He sent his sword back to his weapons locker in his house in Sedona Two Another three seconds passed and his brothers-in-ar in a slow circle to do as Jean-Pierre had done earlier: to scope the territory He was not surprised when a few expletives left eachcrap-house," Zacharius said He touched a cloth to his swollen lower lip "I can’t believe that Kerrick and Alison’s baby would be christened in a place like this?"

Luken snorted "You would think someone destined to open the pathway to Third Earth would be treated with hteous witch like Sister Quena"

Jean-Pierre knew that Luken spoke of Alison When she ascended, not only did she battle a former Warrior of the Blood in an arena, but she becaht a Guardian of Ascension with the prophecy attached to her that she would do just as Luken had said: She would be the instrument by which the portal to Third Earth, closed after millennia, would at last be reopened

There were even Seers’ prophecies indicating that once she accomplished this feat, the war on Second Earth would end for all tiht in a protective arc, all standing because ould sit on such raffiti and all of them buried beneath pine needles The warriors were bruised, just as he was, froo had a black eye and held his arm with his free hand

Zacharius’s left cheek ollen and his upper lip split and bleeding He kept pressing a dark cloth to his ue, ue

Luken moved with a limp to stand beside Zach The pair spoke in low tones

It never used to be like this

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