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Suddenly Evvy heard the whicker of arrows in flight She looked up, al her crystal The ixin leaders

Rosethorn and Briar also looked up They did not so much as stretch out their hands Suddenly crossbow bolts, sprouting twigs and leaves that slowed their flight, turound between the armies

The snap of ropes pulled Evvy’s eyes to boulders that arched into the air She grabbed Luvo "Can we do so she could do about the zayao balls, but the boulders were different

Come with me His voice booic They rose above their bodies into the unpleasant, thin air Evvy glanced down Everyone seereen-leafed crossbow bolts had stopped where they fell Five stone balls were above the Yanjingyi ar Evvy and Luvo spread the deep into the li or two about li that h the bits of lesser material that formed them She couldn’t touch the bits of coral Coral wasn’t a true stone, but the reic There were other one hard like the coral She ignored all of the she thrust aside, the lirow and spread Evvy aps behind as she shifted each piece Abruptly her body down below sneezed She lost her concentration and separated from Luvo She was back in her physical shell

Small pebbles rattled as they bounced off the soldiers’ helritty dust So was she Nearby she heard screams -- human and horse "What did we do?" she asked him

"We broke three boulders in midair," Luvo said He sounded very satisfied with hied our army, but two stones did less harm than five would have done"

"Luvo, can we take rocks apart before they throw them?" Evvy whispered

"Put your hands on me," he said quietly "It works better with both of us"

Evvy obeyed and left her body again

The stones of the plain raced under theest rocks in one Yanjingyi catapult It went quicker this ti boulders Evvy si the stones she recognized out of the limestone

Luvo pulled water from someplace and turned it to ice in the cracks Evvy ot it until they rose above the heap of gravel that was the remains of the boulders ready for the catapult Only then did she see shriveled bodies on the ground through Luvo’s vision They wore the colors of Yanjingyi soldiers and, in the case of two of thees Luvo had taken the water froely They’re the enelad they’re dead