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My body spash me Distantly, I could hear panicked voices, and I tried to process what they were saying Nothing ony of the onyx

Strong hands gripped uish skyrocketed My asp escaped Then I was lifted up, nized the fresh scent

Then ere flying

We had to be, because ereso fast that the wind howled and roared inwas dark asflayed open with tiny razors

When we slowed down, I thought I heard Dee’s shocked cry and then soain, and I didn’t knohere Daas or if they had gotten to him on the other side of the door

All I kneas the pain pu heart

It felt like hours before we stopped again, but I knew it had to be only minutes Damp, cold air that smelled musky blew over us

"Hold on toto be cold, but the onyx is all over your clothes and hair Just hold on, okay?"

I couldn’t answer, and I thought that if it was all over me, it had to be on Daemon It had to be on him the whole way from Mount Weather to the river, which was

Daemon stepped forward, slid a few feet down, and then let out a muttered curse Mos and even through the pain, I tried to scra out farther and the ice lapped up ain "Just hold on for me"

Then we slipped under and orously, sediment was stirred in the

Arhtened around me, and then ere propelled up As ful Stars cartwheeled and blurred, and Daemon moved us out of the water to the bank

Water splashed a few feet away and as ed Dawson out of the water, laying hi his hands through his soaked hair

My heart dropped Was he…?

Dawson flung an ar "Crap"

Relief made my knees weak I felt Daemon’s hands on reen eyes , Kitten Please"

I forced my chilled lips to move "Wow"

His broered as he shook his head, confounded, and then he threw his arhtly I squealed

"God, I don’t even know…" He cupped the back ofhis voice "I was scared to death"

"I’m okay" My voice was muffled "What about you? You had to have--"

"It’s all off me Don’t even worry about that" A shudder rocked him "Daain, pattedto ers When he kissed ht I would cry, because his hands were trehts bore down on us and then there was a stream of voices and questions Dee was the first on the scene She dropped beside Dawson, grabbing his hand

"What happened?" she demanded "Someone tell us what happened"

Matthew and Ash appeared, curious and concerned It was Andreho spoke up "I don’t know They had so that came out of the doors when they opened It was some kind of spray, but it had no smell and we couldn’t see it"

"It hurt like a bitch" Dawson sat up, rubbing his ar that feels like that Onyx"

Of course he’d also knohat it was I shuddered God kno ainst him

"But I’ve never seen it like that before," he continued, slowly cli to his feet with Ash’s and Dee’s help "It was airborne Insane I think I sed some"

"Are you okay? Katy?" Matthew asked

We both nodded My skin ached a little, but the worst of it had passed "How did you know to get us to the river?"

Daeuessed it was onyx when I didn’t see any visible wounds, figured it was on your clothes and skin I reo"

"Good thinking," Matthew said "Hell…"

"We didn’t even h "What the hell e thinking? They have that place wired against Luxen and, apparently, hybrids"

Daeled his arms from me and stalked over to where the rest stood He stopped behind Blake "You’ve been to Mount Weather before, right?"

Slowly, Blake pushed to his feet His cheeks were pale in the silvery --"

Dae into Blake’s jaw Blake stu over, he spit out a mouthful of blood "I didn’t know--I didn’t know they had so that hard to believe" Daemon stalked the boy’s movements

Blake lifted his head "You have to believelike that ever happened before I don’t understand"