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I flung a hand toward the"Froht to stay alive Fro if that will ever end"
"It’s not like you to be afraid"
"It isn’t every night that I’ic Only an idiot wouldn’t be afraid"
"Merit, it’s been a long night punctuated with fear and anger and ic You just need sleep" His voice was soft and kind, and that nearly brought ain I didn’t want pity or consolation; this sadness, this near grief, demanded my full attention
"I don’t need sleep" My voice sounded petulant even to me And that only ht have said that it’s not like you to back down in the face of fear"
"Is that e’d be doing? Backing down? Or just being logical?"
This tiical"
"Don’t be condescending"
Te I a bravery froh it But ill not back down because of her We will not let her destroy our fain it"
"Nothing is certain," I said, thinking of Gabe and Claudia "And maybe I don’t want anylike the Sentinel of this House"
I had no words for hi afraid, and certainly didn’t like showing that fear to hiripped ripped the city
We stared at each other in silence until automatic shades descended over the s, until the sun breached the horizon
We slept because the sun deap between us
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
SNOWBALL
I’d planned to go for a run at dusk, hoping the chill in the air would clear ered between Ethan andwhat I should wear--how bundled I’d need to be against Sorcha’s chill--I pushed back one heavy curtain And stared at the canvas of white that glowed beneath a clear, dark sky
"Ethan"
He was already dressed, was flipping through the Tribune He moved behind me, and I heard the catch in his breath when he realized ere facing
It looked like the city had been dipped into liquid nitrogen--or dropped into an ice age There was a foot of snow on the ground, and every surface above the ground--trees, fence, the houses beyond it--was covered in glea with icicles as sharp as stilettos
The street outside, usually busy into the early hours of the night, was empty of cars The vehicles that had been parked on the side of the road were coated in snow and ice so thick it looked like rubber If the entire city was like this, she’d have brought the city to a standstill