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I just kept shakingto sink in "I don’t want your soul Or your head Just your friendship I’m sorry for all the secrets and lies, but you have to see that they were necessary Put down the sword, Christian" I began re the suicidal? A little bit, apparently "Would you attack me when I’m unarmed?" I blinked away the tears in my eyes as I waited for his answer
He stared at , but his hands were steady Finally, he nodded A great roar sobbed out of his throat as he lunged at ht at my neck I braced e fist in his hair had stopped hi behind hiht his other hand to Christian’s throat It was still a great bear claw, dripping blood fro at it
"Take his arh a nize the animal they came from, but I kneasn’t bear Wolf, like his eye, I realized, as I studied hi other than the fact that my best friend had just tried to kill ainst his will Sweat broke out on his forehead, but he was silent
Do out an earth shattering howl It was a victory roar, and it was met by countless other animal calls Despite heavy casualties, the druids were clearly victorious
As he straightened, I noticed the dark blood seeping out of his torn vest and down his body He was badly wounded and ignoring it
"Dom, you’re hurt You need to call on your healers-" I started
"Silence!" he roared Noas not the ti him orders, I saw He turned back to the slayer "Cam," he barked at his 2nd lieutenant Caed from some beast foraveback
Doure "You will not seek to harm Jillian or Lynn You cannot On pain of death" It wasn’t until he was snapping the bracelet of bones onto Christian’s wrist that I realized he had been placing a Geas TheChristian all lent their power to it Dom had clearly planned ahead for this Christian finally stopped struggling He shut his eyes wearily, tears slipping down his cheeks He said so to Dom, too softly for me to make out It could have been, "thank you," but I wasn’t sure
"Take hi Christian away I watched silently
Dom stood, and a teaht ahead They stripped off his body are he’d taken His body was covered in countless, deeply gushing wounds
His neck was the worst I gasped when they revealed it It looked like soashes, as though they’d wailed on it like a tree trunk The joke was on them Dom’s neck was made of sterner stuff Do it back to nor
As I watched theround, my knees clutched to my chest pathetically No one came near me Tears ran silently downyour best friend try to chop your head off will do that, I guess
As the full extent of Doan to work This hadn’t been the clean a on The necros had been fully prepared for battle They had known Do, and made their best effort to kill him They had clearly been warned
Cam’sus," he was telling Dom Dom merely nodded, his face a ht Half of their force cari "That was no assassination Let them come for me All the better"
As the teah the several of the white-clad druids over in it’s haste
The tiger shifted in a heartbeat into the naked forh for the battle She hugged Dohtly, unmindful of both his injuries, and the now scattered healers "Thank the gods you’re alrig-," she stopped as Dom pushed her away
"Let the healers do their work, Siobhan," Do to look in her direction "The battlefield is no place for that kind of behavior For god’s sake, show a little restraint"
She was visibly distraught at his put-down I didn’t even self-examine myself for sympathy I knew I had none where she was concerned
"What will you do with him?" I asked Dom I was disaze to rets yet about the company you’ve preferred for all these years?"
I shook my head at him as more tears slipped down my cheeks He just watched eas will be hard for his body to accept It’s nature goes against his most powerful instincts We’ll keep him safely in custody until he acclimates"