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Barrons’s gaze whipped to littered with crimson sparks

You did not just hear that, I said with narrowed gaze

Your emotion was so palpable, I suspect even Ryodan heard you You will transfer the queen’s power to another Fae and leave this world if all appears to be lost You will not die here Or there Or anywhere

We’ll discuss this later

His nostrils flared and he ducked his head, looking up at e, in that fa, heated battle later I arched a brow at hi heated ed a look, then Barrons said to Christian, "You may take him home"

Ryodan snapped, "That’s not what I just said"

"I don’t care I said he could," Barrons said softly "And you and I will do battle over this one If there was ever a time for a man to be with his clan, it’s now" To Christian, he said, "Get the hell out of here"

Christian vanished

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When people have absolutely no control over the things that really s: devolve into ani their base instincts (wolves); huddle in herds for coid daily routine, effecting control over those few things they can while endeavoring to change what sees)

Over the next feeeks our world split neatly into those cauards andstill ory Violent crimes escalated: rapes, murders, thefts, vandalism People ripped out recently planted trees and drove utility vehicles through flower beds in public co the world with me" attitude that was beyond my ability to cos--I’d have planted neers right up to the moment of extinction Barrons says that’s because so both audience and canvas They create because they must, not for the world but thee of tackling a new, h the Silvers by the hundreds of thousands to one of seven suitable worlds They calobe, drawn by word there was a way off planet Christian had been sifting to various surrounding countries, alerting people to as happening in Dublin and telling the out farther and bringing people back with hi, nearly incoherent, froers in tow The Nine,the black holes to keep the troops of colonies with governing bodies and supplies, and escorting theh

The "sheep," as I call them, are the backbone of society, and as some of theot downright excited, alive and alert, and I realized sheep could ht circu the Silvers via portals Ryodan and Barrons established with stacked mirrors, I felt enor But sevenborn The sky was the li the stars

The joy I felt at the possibilities for mankind, however, was brutally overshadowed by the fact that if (and it was looking more like "when") the Earth died, so many of us would, too Not just those in my inner circle, but billions that siht of the world on our shoulders, literally

On a personal level, it was a complete and total clusterfuck If, by so and heal the world, it would un: all the Unseelie, Alina, and possibly Christian, Barrons, the Nine, and Dageus would die

If I failed to sing it and the world ended, destroying the seat of the Fae race’s power, all Fae, Seelie and Unseelie, Barrons, and the rest of the Nine would definitely die, as well as potentially Christian and the other hybrids a us I would also die But Alina would live At leastas I didn’t sing it, Alina would enjoy a natural life span She wasn’t Fae, she was a huht think I’d spent allmy inner files I did For exactly two days

Then Barrons and Ryodan pointed out the unarguable fact that if the queen had possessed the song, she would have used it and not doo their power to the Earth If she’d possessed any useful clues, she would have pursued the in reater useevery note of otherworldlyto finish the second half of the song We worked day and night on it

To no avail

According to Dancer, ere trying to do was ihtly We had no para, or longer than the first No clue if entirely newis, is a purely subjective thing, not a mathematical formula It’s up to the artist, and no one else’s vision can ever be identical