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Sinking to the ground

EATING Jo SLOWLY and with great GUSTO

YES, YES, I tell It, YOU ARE CORRECT, THAT IS WHAT WAS IN YOUR TEETH BITS OF JO WERE CAUGHT BETWEEN THEM YOU ATE YOUR FRIEND YOU KILLED HER, AND I MADE MY EYES GREEN FOR HER SO SHE DIED BELIEVING IT WAS YOU

I feel It then

The weakness I’ve coe The surface of Its false facade cracks and eins to seep in It is so easy to break, so simple to control I can never be broken in such fashion I am superior

Before they have time to place the final two stones, I recover control of elatinousSCRAPED from MY limbs, MY eyes

The bitch has soh, mere inches from the queen, and MacKayla yanks oal

All I require is control of my hand to kill the bitch queen and take what is er at Aoibheal from behind eyes I can’t influence, unable to affect so es, this time of the woman I i, handso in the street The child I stabbed through the eye with my spear then twirled in the air as if on a skewer before tossing it into a cruets It

It falters I seize control of my hand, raise the spear and--

IT FREEZES ME AGAIN!

"I’ for them," the queen sneers contemptuously "They’re not my people They never were You want the power of the Fae race? Fine Take it"

Aoibheal slareen, I think dispassionately as the queen’s hands slam into my chest Didn’t she notice?

Or perhaps she didn’t care, unwilling to take the chance I h

Ancient power rushes intodeep, and I feel as if ushes into me, in an endless flood

Too much, toome backward, into the mirror, back to the concubine’s side of the boudoir as she issues an ih the Silver to Barrons: "She will be iic You must contain her Now!"

I’d tell Barrons it’s not necessary because I’m in control, but I can’t affect my vocal cords, my mouth Nor can the Sinsar Dubh We’re both in a state of suspension, i, stupefying power It feels as if five tons of concrete just got dumped into a quart jar I’m not Fae How is this even possible? Will it destroy me? Tear us apart? Is that her point, her purpose?

I re I’ve becoood, thewe survive