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She turned her hands up, helpless for once "My lord," she said plaintively

He opened the closet and drafted the board for his feet--out of yellow luxin now, since he couldn’t do blue

"Tell Kip I’m sorry Tell Karris… No, I suppose you can’t Fare thee well, Marissia" He stepped into the closet and closed the door

He could hear her weeping as soon as the door closed, though she was trying to hold it back

Gavin slid open the floor, found the rope, and fitted the board onto it Indoard into the darkness

When he got to the bottoroped around until he found the lux torches, then pulled one off the wall He hadn’t been able to use theht into any of his brother’s cells Now that Dazen was in the yellow cell, it didn’t matter any the yellow cell up It would take about five minutes for the cell to lift and rotate into position He’d built it that way so that his brother would always think that the place where thesat was a weakness in the design, when in fact he’d hardened that spot above all others

The wait gave hienius he’d had in constructing this prison He’d built the first, blue cell in aall the other cells He wondered how much different the world would be if he’d simply killed his brother and turned his attention i the injustices he saw the everywhere A waste, all for one uts to murder him in cold blood

Slowly, slowly, the orb came into view, and then slowly settled There was a slide to pull back to reveal the , but Gavin found hi blankly at that slide, afraid to pull it open

Ridiculous He was here to die He was here to let his brother out This should be easy It was all finished His heart ha to seize up His throat constricted He eating

He pulled back the slide

A ht at his face

Gavin threw himself backward His brother’s lux torch hit the yellow luxinand shattered in a flash of released yellow brightwater But the prisoner wasn’t finished He didn’t laugh with cool resolve at scaring Gavin Instead, he attacked with the fury of a rabid wolf, beating the lux torch against the ith great blows until the wood shaft splintered in his hands, broke

"Youto kill you and everyone you ever loved I’ head off and sodomize you with it"

Gavin stood, brushed himself off, and put his own lux torch into a bracket