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As if to prove it, he glances up at the sky The rest of his Watchers and hellions are hovering above the fight where the noise is less And beyond that is the cloud of winged spectators I’ination, but I sense the arctic winds of disapproval co down at us from the spectators above

He cah the entire angel host atching

Raffe esture to his two Watchers They nod

The two Watchers juesture to the rest of the Watchers hovering above

Raffe’s entire crew dives down through the painful noise and blinding lights and lands on the bridge

When angeleach other in an alley They raise their feathers, er than before

At first, our freedoht and withdraw into a ainst theels, they waste a second, watching the scene unfold with slack jaws

I raise h no one can hear roup,have a fair shot of fending off Uriel’s attack

Everyone else must feel the same way, because all around hts turn off again, throwing the world into utter darkness

I stand still, not having anywhere to hide while the angels can see and we can’t Someone brushes by me in the dark I want to hunker down and cover my head, but I just have to trust Raffe and the Watchers to keepbeside ht hits them

There are hting for us while ere blind Now they’re all blinded, and it’s our turn

I rub Raffe’s arm to let hi the disorienting few seconds while the angels are covering their eyes, trying to adjust back to the light, we huels closest to us while other people attack single angels in groups large enough to overwhelht while ere helpless Noe fight while they’re debilitated

We’re working together as a teae their weaknesses and they bridge ours We’re a weird, ragged, roup coels, but we’re still beating theh els Screa angel who is shielding his eyes

Raffe falls to the ground wrestling blindly with two angels who are working together to hold hih one’s back, and Raffe kicks off the other

I feel like we have a real shot at beating theether