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Jade was across the street She wasn’t alone

Her head turned toward him, and Az saw her lips move in a desperate scream that he couldn’t hear

His nalass Two seconds later, he was on the ground, his knees barely buckling as he lunged forward

Bastion was s His hands rapped around Jade

"Let her go!" Az bellowed He didn’t knohy Jade was out there on the street Didn’t care All thather safe and--

And she vanished Bastion vanished

No

When the earth stopped spinning, Jade collapsed on the ground Not the rough asphalt of a paved street, but on soft, grass-covered earth Nausea roiled in her stoht for control

Then she realized she was still alive Because if she felt this miserable, she had to be alive

Her eyes flew open, and she shot upright That fast movement just made the nausea worse

"Easy" Bastion frowned down at her "I’d forgottenhuic"

She sed rapidly "Magic? And here I just thought you’ddone that angelsuper speed thing" Second by second, she was getting her control back

"We needed soolden brow lifted "You weren’t the only one to visit the witch today"

What? That jerk had totally sold theed you Gave you his blood"

Everyone see on that

Bastion lifted his hand and stared down at his fingers "A si your immune froood, right?

Bastion dropped his hand and stared into her eyes "I don’t want you to suffer"

She staggered to her feet and put some precious distance between them "What a coincidence I don’t really want that, either"

His head cocked as he frowned at her