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His fiery wings make it impossible to come at him from any direction other than head-on And Raffe and I are directly in front of hi at us, a Watcher charges between us, protecting us with his body as he punches the Pit lord Instead of punching back, the Pit lord grabs his For a iant ball of fire as his wings encase the Pit lord and the Watcher

When he opens his wings again, the Watcher is in fla with every scrap of hair on his body are on fire

The Pit lord drops hi on the ground, trying to smash the flames out

The Pit lord comes back for us Raffe holds his air space while the other Watchers rescue Flyer

Raffe nods to one of the Watchers who then takes position below us I’ he’s there to catch o,’ I say

‘I’es us in a halo of fla the burn

The Pit lord turns and chases us I realize that Raffe is reluctant to turn and face him, because that puts me in the flame’s line of fire

‘Take the sword,’ I say We haven’t tested out whether Pooky would take hie, I decide this isn’t the best time to test it

Raffe spins in midair A wall of fire cos toward us

I swing e of exciteets a chance to cut into a Pit lord

The blade slices through the fire A piece of the flames cleaves off and tumbles down

The Pit lord bellows as he watches a part of his wing crash onto the ground, spraying e to stay up, but his wings are now uneven, and he begins spiraling Raffe presses our advantage and flies up to hi I can reach Another piece of the Pit lord’s wing blazes down

And he tumbles fro froh it does nothing against the rotten-egg stench

The Pit lord has landed and rolled The fire in his wings has sputtered out, leaving dead-looking wings that are burned to leathery husks He’s bleeding fros

He yells a coather near hi ready to bolt any minute, while the Consumed seem insanely excited at the prospect of bodies

Watchers land all around us, for a protective circle

They have no weapons, and ly wounds, so fierce To my surprise, Beliel is one of them He stares blindly ahead, ready to battle for Raffe

I look at our crew and coood chance of beating the Pit lord, assuht

‘Oh, I‘The dae we could do here if we’d only been able to keep our swords’

‘That’s exactly why the swords have to reject us,havoc with an army of Fallen armed with their swords’