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Auron thumped his wounded tail, hard, on the reverse side of the rock The man whirled, but only a small portion of Auron’s head and neck was visible He watched the h one barely open eye "Will you face an armed man, creature, as fiercely as you did a child hardly able to walk?" Thelike a weather vane rather than like living flesh

Auron faced hi flame The man threw his armored elbow before the eye slits in his armored mask as he knelt behind another rock, but too late Auron’s fire coated hie liquid Spent and pained, Auron inhaled s and slipped off the rock

He saw a tower of flaonblade’s armor like surf from a sea turtle’s back Somehow, the man lived Drakossozh came at him, spear point held to skewer and kill "All you’ve burned is the sash, with the names of those in Sarsmyouth you murdered stitched into it But they remain in my memory Tirea, the child, Guldan, the fisher the sword to kill

Auron writhed under the blade and shot between two rocks, snapping off the arrow in his side in a flash of red pain Thefilled with blood and agony, and he felt as though his tail had been stepped on It did not hinder him, and Auron leaped atop another rock An arrow shot under his neck

The Dragonblade shouted, and Auron saw silver helonblade hopped upon the tallest boulder, leaping as ni armor, and he continued to bellow orders They were answered by the archers--one fired a fla arrow in Auron’s direction It struck a tree trunk and burned, throwing off bright sparkles that hissed as they landed on ony, and Auron ceased running so he could get air in his body A mountain man blew his horn, and Auron saw spears pointed in his direction He noted dully that a third of his tail had been chopped off

"Why you’re hardly worth skinning!" Drakossozh bellowed, laughing "Those fishermen made you out to be a sea monster of awesome size and ferocity When I found one of your teeth, I wondered I’ons to death?" Auron said, further pain co with the words

"No But with your death, I will have taken all the colors, save black There will be feasting and dancing tonight, as you rotate on a spit Headless, for I must have my trophy"

Auron flirted with the thought of whipping his neck down to shatter his skull on a rock, but turned so that the on roar he could, but it was hardly loud or fierce, and it ended with a bloody cough

"Your er to approach," Auron said The onblade jumped down from his perch and strode toward Auron, a wisp of s froripping their cli picks two-handed

Horses screamed in the distance and thundered out of thethat had turned the land into shadow and hint A boy with a torch ran as trailing their leashes ran for the rocks, tails tucked beneath legs Pairs of glowing eyes reflected light fro howled "Tell me you still live, or I’ll tear out the throat of every ood wolf"

It was Blackhard Auron felt his heart pound

"Blackhard! Brother!" he howled, as best he could