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I watched as Fenri started to breathe again Odin ran forward and pulled hie Syrani stared at the elassy and filled with tears When she turned those blue eyes on my cousin, they became filled with hate

"Siobhan, you don’t have to hurt anyone Especially Fenri We’re your fa her that I didn’t have a weapon I watched e, but that thread of power controlling her was back, and thicker than before Bearen came forward and started to kneel in front of his niece "Stay back," I warned my father I tried to think of a way to i her

Siobhan started to laugh, a loud cackling that chilled me to the bone It continued to echo forth out of her frail body My cousin was eerily close to breaking

A large rock came out of nowhere and wacked Siobhan on the back of the head She fell face first into the dirt, unconscious At first I orried that the rock had killed her, but I saw that it had crumpled into many tiny pieces upon impact It was a soft blow, not a deathblow Meant to incapacitate

I looked over ly at Syrani who stood next to round and began to run her hands back and forth along the cool earth, as if she were colow as she sent little pulses of power through the ground and waited

Seconds later, she juirl was right They’re co?" Bearen growled out "Sinnendor’s Elite?"

Syrani shook her head and looked at me, her eyes filled with uncertainty I didn’t wait for her to answer I reached out like Syrani had but--where she used the earth to search--I went high I pushed my senses out toward the thread of power connected to Siobhan and followed it back It took a fewat i The farther away I searched, the blurrier the vision beca There were s Horses, hundreds of horses, weapons, swords--and they were on the , and I could understand Syrani’s hesitancy in speaking out It was a very large arht I felt like I was zoo in and out of focus as I tried to find the anchor, the person controllingand it left s I was barely aware of peoplefor me to see what she had seen

There! I saw a thread of purple like the one used to control Gloria at Skyfell I followed it to a rider who sat silently off to the side of the ar his best to reach Siobhan’s consciousness, but since she was incapacitated, she couldn’t hear his co on the reigns of his horse, trying to keep him in check, as the horse wanted to follow the hundreds of others htly confused by what I saw through ht More threads of shadow moved around the camp I blinked in surprise when I saw Narn scurry passed the man on the horse So he had lied and safely made it back to his brethren I realized what my moment of pity cost me One more soldier in the Septori army I should have executed him on the spot But I couldn’t worry about hi

I continued to scan and, ht beacons of light sy Denai I had just about decided to stop my search when another horseman came by and spoke to the power-focused Denai

"So what? You lost track of one We’ve hundreds h Focus on them and ill soon see victory"

The hooded rider shook his head "I can’t believe that one got so far away before I realized it She stopped just inside the border of Calandry Perhaps I can keep her there We can get her before we cross over She’s so much like her cousin Not someone we can afford to lose Without her, I can’t make more of the serury Not when your results these last feeeks have been impeccable Surely, there is room for a little error," the other rider spoke

"Iain Raven wanted another like her, and I gave provided her--even sped up the process But now I’ve lost her, even tethered like the others There’s so about these Sirens that doesn’t like to be tamed Blast! Why did it have to be that one to wander off?"