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"I aiven you life, but I can also give you death"

Aer init harder tomore pissed off, I couldn’t say But the sooner this attack ended, the better for us both

"My death will hardly help regain control of the two re to keep my voice even "Besides, I’ve already been dead It holds no fear for me"

The words were barely out of my mouth when the attack stopped with a suddenness that hadThere was a moment of silence before he said, "You died?"

A hint of aer, and I frowned What in the hell was funny aboutto quiver inlow in resources and would soon start leeching iven that I wasn’t exactly at the top of ame after the last few days, there was no way in hell I was about to ask her to drop the shield Not until I knew the reason behind ht the blood bond meant you could feel my presence no matter where I was?"

"When you wear flesh, yes," he replied "But place yourself in death’s hands, and it is a differentbreak any sort of connection? That in itself should tell you so happened"

"It is not that sier, but it didn’t make me feel any safer Quite the opposite, in fact

"If you had remained on death’s plane, then, yes, I would have sensed it But you chose to coray fields themselves are the realonto the on them as a soul ready to ain, thanks to Azriel’s actions Bitterness stabbed through er and a splintered sense of loss I sed heavily and somehow said, "So is the fact I basically died the reason why the device in my heart hasn’t summoned the Raziq?"

"Yes As I told you previously, only death could stop it"

Which only meant I was free from the pain of the device, not from the Raziq themselves

Unfortunately

"And is that the reason you see?"

"It was not so much your death, but theMalin’s plans"

Malin was the head of the Raziq, and my father’s former lover She was also a woive her the child she’d wanted, deciding instead to seek out and inate my mother It was a combination that made her less than benevolent when it ca What she’d actually done tothat time I couldn’t say, because she’d erased all iven that she’d told me my father would uessing it was so that perhaps tied me to her just as much as my father

"I hadn’t exactly planned to die, you know"

"Hus"

Strength fade, Amaya said, annoyance heavy in herto ad Must draw --

No, I cut in Drop the shield

And Ifor that very event

The faint lilac haze around me flickered, then died, and Amaya’s blade became shadowed once more I tensed but, despite my fears, my father didn’t i also shared by the Aedh I hardly think Lucian had planned to die so soon"

"Perhaps not, but he are of its approach, as you well know"

He paused, and that vague sense of ahtened so abruptly it was a wonder

"Lucian’s plans are no excuse for you having lost the second key, however"

"No, because you own some of that blaiven the state of boththe sorceress Lauren, but also that he orking with the sorcerer who stole the first key You didn’t tell me the first fact until after I’d questioned you about her, and you didn’t even botherthe second"

"Because it should not have been relevant No human should have been able to access the fields, let alone the gates"