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Teia attacked the drafter on her side--the same man Zero attacked The drafter on the other side shot a blade of luxin into Zero’s torso He stumbled and fell and looked at Teia as if he couldn’t believe she’d been so stupid

I’m color-blind, damn it!

Zero fell, but then both eneuards

A snarling red wight lit hi for Teia to go after--so and the fires

Then she saw a youngaway, and she went after him He was dressed in a white shirt and cloak, both with thick bands of many colors on it: one of the Color Prince’s polychromes He ran down the halls and disappeared Teia followed as fast as she could

Rounding a corner, she ran right across his extended foot and into his shoulder and went flying Ambushed! She slid across the smooth stone floor and saw that he had her pistol in his hand She thought he’d broken her finger frouard The boy was perhaps seventeen years old, his face bloody where his spectacles had been shattered, the glass cutting his cheeks and his hawkish nose He pointed the pistol at her, and she froze

On her knees, she watched as a dozen soldiers ar un erinned at her and said, "Kill her, then go reinforce theshe could do Orhola she could do Then, even as three of the soldiers raised theirby her, over her, through her like a rushing wind It whispered: Like this

She could suddenly hear Magister Martaens saying, "You’ll burn to death" But Teia felt serene No fear Her hands caers spread Rapid pulses of open color strea beyond paryl, or paryl in a way she’d never considered trying to draft it

It felt like she’d dipped her hands in fire The soldiers screamed, ducked, dropped their weapons Two fled Several fell and curled into balls

Teia heard the steps of runningup behind her and she snapped a hand out toward theuards She stopped, her eyes instantly tightening back to the visible spectrum She looked at her hands They were untouched, unburned but still tingling She turned back to the soldiers she’d incapacitated, expecting them to be charred husks They were unharuards fell on thee was one of the ones who’d fled, shielded from her blast by the bodies of the ot to the yard in tiate

Dao after hiht see her tingling pal any ti the cannons under the watchful eye of one of the uns before

Teia said, "Co to--"

"Dead," Couished his sword, but there was smoke and soot and blood and bloody hair on the blade "The boy? The polychroet--"

Coer and walked toward the"Auards joined hireen, said, "Oh no I can feel it"