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"Soed, his voice hoarse, but the battle was so fierce that no one could pause for a moment to help any of the wounded He was sure she’d been traht to stay alive

Finally Siround and began casting lethal spells alongside a bruised, broken, and bloody Sae ave after wave of soldiers running to attack the person who had killed their general, until there were only a handful of Quillitary soldiers left alive

As their co and Mr Appleblossoate area and ran toward Samheed and the others to assist There they helped finish the battle The last soldier went doith a deathly poem fro and gasping for breath that wouldn’t coht out Lani, and then his eyes rolled back into his head and he cruhan Neither of them moved

And then, in the very han and Samheed, the land beneath their feet turned slick Not with the blood of their ene white ice--ice from the veins of the most evil one of all Gondoleery Rattrapp

Artiméans everywhere slipped off their feet and went sprawling, landing hard Quillens, too, apart fro, were frozen inside their ho their jobs The few Quillitary soldiers who had survived the battle noatched in horror as their vehicles slid off the road and skidded down the embank the lagoon in Artimé stopped short, its hull encased in a sea of ice

Aaron in Trouble

It was ained consciousness When he could pry his swollen eyelids open, he found hi boat, alone, bouncing and churning and lurching against the waves His sto more than bile inside it to expel

His face throbbed Gingerly he reached up to touch it His skin was on fire It was more pain than he’d ever known Every rise and fall of the boat caused his sight to waver and his nose to feel like it was going to explode He pushed himself up and peered fearfully over the lip of the vessel’s side, and then he sat up and gripped the bench The sea swam before his eyes, and briny water sloshed about at his feet The only solid thing in sight was the pirate ship, to which his little fishing boat was attached by a heavy gold chain

He could hear voices co from above him, on board the ship, but he couldn’t make out any words "Hey," Aaron said, but little sound came from his parched throat His bottoh priest"

Every effort to reave up He sank back to the floor of the boat and closed his eyes

The Queen of Ice

Almost no one on the island of Quill had ever seen ice before It felt cold before it stung, and with little warning it becaht his breath and scraain "What’s going on?" he whispered to Sis in all directions