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Andrea scratched between Ronan’s eyes "I’m sorry, Ronan," she said "He’ll help you, but I need you to proet to know him yet"

Dylan knelt on Ronan’s other side, put his hand on the bear’s shoulder "Easy, lad Let the Fae bastard try I want you back with us, h, opened his eyes, and gave Andrea a long-suffering look

"He’ll be all right," she said to Fionn

Fionn finished s out the sand until a thin layer coated his hand Then he slaht where the arrow had gone in

Ronan’s eyes popped open and a stifled roar caainst Ronan’s fur, flattening his lips in concentration as Ronan’s body began to heave

"Hold hi?" Dylan asked

Andrea knew before Fionn answered In her ic of the dust leach into Ronan’s blood,for the taint of poison and then eating through it like acid burning away rust

It had to hurt like hell Ronan writhed under Andrea’s touch even as she laced her healing power down to help him, his moans of pain alh hier, until finally he shook off Fionn and Dylan and sprang to his feet He roared as he rose on his hind legs, all twelve feet of him, and hehurts! Enough!"

Andrea pulled the silk wrap about her as she stood The cloth was soft as air but opaque, hiding her coht?" she asked Ronan

Ronan shuddered, hands co up to scrub his face "What the hell was that? It was like being eaten by ants froic char off his paled his expression "Thanks I hter spoke well of you I did it for her"

"No, really, don’t keep explaining I’ body in a hug "Anytime You saved my life out there"

"Plus, the Guardian’s not here, so it’s just as well I didn’t die" Ronan glanced around, as though Sean would co out froht he never strayed two feet frorimly

"We need to find hi full force

Ronan looked from Andrea to Dylan "What the hell happened to Sean?"

"We don’t know," Dylan said "We found blood "

Fionn was the only one who didn’t look concerned "You can find hihter"