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"She wants us to ju back just in tireeroeak and thin We can alh the fla coals, s, and men into deh to burn But he doesn’t Instead, he draws the flames apart like a curtain

Only one person can do that

Maven shakes e the silk burn ahile his arall to sth to turn away Instead of tearing Maven apart with his bare hands, he takes ether, not bothering to defend our backs Maven is no match for either of us, and he knows it Instead, he screams Despite the crown and the blood on his hands, he is still so young

"Run, hter echoes off the cru me "There is nowhere I won’t find you!"

I’et farther away Cal’s own flaion But we’re already juh midair, to the river ten feet below

We land, not with a splash but the resounding clang ofpain run up my bones What? Farley waits, knee-deep in the cold river, next to a cylindricalshe cla into whatever lies beneath us We have no tiue or ask questions, and follow blindly

At least Cal has the good sense to close the tube behind us, shutting out the river and the war above It hisses pneuht seal But that won’t protect us for long, not against the legion

"More tunnels?" I ask breathlessly, whirling to Farley My vision spots with the

Like she did on the street, Farley puts one arht "No, this isn’t a tunnel," she says with a puzzling s soer It pulses all around us, down the strange hallili the faces of the Guardsroan, the whole hall shudders and drops, angling doard Into the water

"A boat An underwater boat," Cal says His voice is faraway, shaky, and weak Just like I feel

Neither of us ainst the sloping walls