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I suck in a breath A terrible thing is about to happen

"Stop Stop, you fool," I whisper I knohat it is like to have your pulse pounding in your ears and your breath surging in gasps and your entire being so fixed on the handhold you are reaching for that you don’t see the gaping chas so hard it bruises ers

Just as Green Boy leaps into the next ring, its nested s The crowd shrieks as the ring crushes hi The roar of the spectators drowns the thule of his neck and the sprawl of his limbs, anyone with eyes can tell he is dead

Sucking in an oath, I push back and look around

Even Ahtest interest in the Fives, is clasping hands with Denya and staring avidly at the dead youth It’s not that the spectators want adversaries to die It’s just that it adds spice to the garound like the spots on a tomb spider’s brown back

As the crowd cheers, the red-belt-wearing girl climbs the ladder to take her triu at me with the same narrow-eyed frown I sahen he pulled off his lances around Lord Ottonor’s retinue, spotsnext toleather gae

In a low voice he says, "Doma, I swear by the oracles that you re scuffed leather shoes exactly like those, down to the three lines of chalk sasp causes Kalliarkos to smile

"I won’t tell if you don’t want me to Where do you train?"

"I can’t say They don’t know I run" My cheeks burn

"Any of the

"Shh! My sisters know Not my father andLord Ottonor "Which one is your father?"

My father happens to look our way at that ht and expression hard