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All of the to do with me

I stood and went to my father "You heard her confess, didn’t you?"

His jaitched and the shouting faded I pressed him "Did you or did you not hear her confess?"

His breath blew out in a slow streaone, so she can’t control you anyreen fire "She never controlled "

"You are a fool if you believe that" I turned fro me out of the Spiral I didn’t care who followed, didn’t care what happened Cassava had been stopped The family was, mostly, intact

The smell of wolf preceded Griffin, and I shifted so he could lean against the redwood next to , you did well Better than well You saved them all"

I nodded "Then why do I feel lower than worm shit?"

"Because our parents, no matter how old we are, have that kind of power over us"

A sturound, just barely visible between two hole hand

His green eyes met mine "Lark, help me"

Chapter 23

Coal!" His naround at his side, wrapping my arms around him, "You’re alive!"

"What happened?" His words were slurred, as if he’d been drinking

"You’ve lost a lot of blood" I pulled ht hand had been, tightening it quickly He’d put athe job "We have to get you to a healer"

"Who did this to me?" he whispered "I’ll kill them I’m less of a man Can’t do my job Useless now" He mumbled all the way to the healers’ rooms where I left him in the capable hands of those who knew better than I how to help hiain, not when the truth came out

Goddess help me, let Coal never knoas me who took his hand There was no way to explain why or how He would never understand

I made my way slowly to the Ender barracks Blosso in the middle of the floor, worms dead all around her I crouched beside her "Hey, how are you feeling?"