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"Adam! No!" Adrienne pleaded

Adam seemed to ponder the situation a ed and tossed the piece into the forge

To Adrienne, lying flat on the ground, everything seemed to happen in slow motion

She watched in horror as the black queen soared through the air and sank into the glowing coals Adrienne sed a sob as the flareedily at the chess piece Her only way out had been destroyed

Hawk sighed his relief Adrienne collapsed against the earth, staring blankly at the soil The black queen was gone, the dense African wood no e steel

No Moonie No way home

She was here in 1513--with hihter as he leaned closer to the Hawk Close enough that only the Hawk heard his low,words "She arm my bed in no tiht His ould hate him for what he’d done

"What the hell are you doing at the forge in the rinned iht Besides, one never knohat pri"

Hawk snarled at the ser to her unsteady feet Her breathing was labored from her run, perhaps froid silence Adrienne’s voice trelas, and it’s all you’ll ever need to know Reed my mind I won’t I despise you You took fro you can ever do to earn iveness I hate you!"

"Despise e "But you can never leave me now That’s all that matters"

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble …