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Her hands curled into fists

"Ryodan, we’ve got proble the Sinsar Dubh When she took a spell from it, the Book possessed her I can’t find Barrons I don’t know if Mac is still in there so it coic dictates I kill her at the earliest opportunity"

Which, technically, had passed

She’d taken Mac’s spear before she’d undone her restraints, erring on the side of caution She should have attacked the aze She was faster and the Book had been having obvious acclihtly as it found footing She could have stabbed it with the spear, cleaved it in half with her sword, ensuring the body that held the Sinsar Dubh would rot and die

Mac’s body

Eventually

Slowly and horrifically

For a woman who lived by the motto carpe momentum et cetera sequentur, she’d never wanted to seize a moment less

She knehy and told the unconscious ive up on friends They never give up"

The body on the

Lost in the Silvers versus lost in the Book: Jada didn’t perceive the odds of rescue as substantially disparate The fallout, however, could be catastrophically different: one girl, never to be seen again, versus the earth’s total do the black holes didn’t destroy it first

"Lor told one," she told the silent room "It wasn’t your fault It wasn’t Mac’s either People need to stop thinking they’re responsible for my actions It wasn’t like I needed to be rescued I’ve never needed to be rescued" She’d always found a way to save herself

Still, she knew intihts cold, hungry, alone; of belief dying bit by bit

Mac had sacrificed herself, to ensure Jada’s survival If Mac hadn’t opened the Sinsar Dubh and used a spell to save them, the Sweeper would have sent horribly "fixed" versions of Mac and Jada out into the world, whichunleashed on it And who could say the Sweeper’s work on Mac’s brain wouldn’t have freed the Sinsar Dubh anyway? There’d been no easy, good choices tonight, only the lesser of evils--to for a rescue that never came