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Ely’sto one of her brothers Sean’s lips tightened

"No," Andrea said quickly "Not for that Not yet Just draw the sword"

Sean frowned at her, but he whispered a prayer and drew the blade Thein the stillness, and Ely opened his eyes

"Sean" Ely sht hand and wrapped it around the blade Sean blinked, checking his start so he wouldn’t cut her

The edge nicked Andrea’s palm anyway, and the trickle of blood that folloaric of the sword, and twined the threads of it with her own

It hurt Andrea sed pain as herthreads dove into her, gleefully wrapping her in a gleaht threads that tried to bind her, to suffocate her Whatever was in her nightmare wanted her death

She realized after a few seconds of blinding panic that what happened to her noas different She’d never had the feeling in her dreaic of the sword, that was trying to kill her Theelse, so breath, Andrea directed the bright threads froht into Ely’s abdoan to heal Strand by strand, the bright led the snarl of Ely’s hurts and rewove theans, all ed under her touch

She’d never heal him completely; Andrea knew that Ely would not leap from the bed, yank the tubes out of his body, and dance out the door in his hospital gown But the healing had started, the e boost With Shifteron his own and live His rieving cere a different tune, and the nurse exclaiarding Andrea over his half-healed stoaze Shifter strong

Andrea let go of Sean’s sword and sat back, blowing out her breath The nurse fiddled with theto explain to the rest of thee in nu where the sword had cut it, but the threads of , clinging to Ely in joy Ely stroked her hair but was staring over the foot of the bed at Andrea in airl?" he asked, voice ringing "That fking hurt!"

Sean walked Andrea out of the clinic with his hand firmly on her shoulder Andrea’s eyes were dark with shock in her white face, her gait unsteady But his girl held it together while they passed all those Shifters in the waiting rooo by

They’d all heard what had happened, and the weird thing was, they supposed Sean had worked some kind of miracle But Sean knew it had been all Andrea He’d felt the ic remake itself The sword had helped drive life back into Ely, to seal his soul to his body