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It had happened within seconds He’d looked up to make certain Pandora had crossed the short distance to the carriage Instead, he’d seen Dragon fighting his way through the crowd and running full-bore toward the corner of the building, where Pandora was standing with an unfa from her sleeve, and he’d seen the telltale shake of her ar knife The short blade had flashed in the reflected theater lights as she’d raised it

Gabriel had reached Pandora just a second after Dragon, but by that point the knife blade had already driven doard

"Wouldn’t it be strange if I died froainst his chest "Our grandchildren wouldn’t be at all i heroic Rescuing someone Maybe you could tell therandchildren if I died, would we?"

"You’re not going to die," Gabriel said shortly

"I still haven’t found a printer," Pandora fretted

"What?" he asked, thinking she was delirious

"This a with Helen in the opposite seat, interrupted gently "There’s still tiame"

Pandora relaxed and subsided, her fist closing in a fold of Gabriel’s shirt like a baby’s

Winterborne glanced at Gabriel, see Pandora’s hair, Gabriel settled his palave the other ?" Winterborne asked softly "As if in time to a heartbeat?"

Gabriel shook his head

Winterborne relaxed onlythe hand from Pandora’s ear, Gabriel continued to stroke her hair, and saw that her eyes had closed He propped her up slightly higher "Darling, don’t go to sleep"

"I’m cold," she said plaintively "And e is lumpy" She made a pained sound as the vehicle turned a corner and jolted