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"You are not ustus releases so And the small part of Adrius that held out hope to be loved disappears He shakes off his hu only the Jackal

"Then farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear Farewell reood topart of himself as he lazily lifts the scorcher to his father’s forehead "Evil, be thou ood"

"Stop!" Aja steps forward "Adrius! In the nan …"

The Jackal shoots his father in the head

Eo’s killer drops to the ground, and I feel hollowness spread over ets death This is what Dancer warnedsaid not to trust her brother This is why my friends will die Why I will die Because I cannot match this evil

Who can?

"You dun needed him to talk down the Outer Rim! Gorydammit" She looks to the sky as fla in hard from the upper atrounds as Praetorians encounter Augustus’s and Lorn’s first responders

"I gave you this prize," the Jackal says, nodding to me "Do not whine now" He references his datapad and points at the fla Unless you want to play with theustus are dead This army ither"

Aja orders her Praetorians to their shuttle They co slackens Her eyes have closed

"Roque," I h the thickness of the poison "Brother …"

"No No," he says, not a monster, still himself, still quiet and tranquil, if dreadful in his sadness "You are a son of Red I a son of Gold That world where we are brothers is lost" But he cole the ivory box in my lap toward my face "And in this world, the power of Gold will never wane"

I look into the box and my heart shatters

All that has been, all that was to be, crashes down Eo’s dreanar, do not come back to this world There’s too much pain Too much sorrow to everback at rapes Ares, the one hope we had, the one ave e, has been butchered And I knoe are undone