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Several people hold up grisly parts of hier, and other parts too bloody to recognize

Okay, s in the universe, but then, who is?

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‘I’ve fulfilled el,’ says the Pit lord His burned wings sweep back and forth lazily in the air ‘I saved your pitiful Daughter of Man and her family Now it’s your turn’

Raffe hovers on his beautiful feathered wings in front of the Pit lord He nods with a grim expression

‘No’ The word slips out of my mouth as I watch, mesmerized

Two hellions with black axes fly in frohts Their axes are stained with layers of old blood They position thes

There’s a moment when I think Raffe will come up with a way out of this as he stares down the Pit lord

Then he gives a single nod

Without warning, the two hellions si joints

They lift their axes and slice through Raffe’s wing joints

They lift their axes and slice through Raffe’s wing joints

They lift their axes and slice through Raffe’s wing joints

They

his wings

I don’t know if Raffe yells out in his pain, because all I hear is my own scream

Raffe falls

Two of his Watchers swoop down and catch his land with a thud on the concrete

A second after that, his sword clatters onto the ground, cracking the concrete with its weight

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The es the sky above the San Francisco skyline It’s forever changed, but I’

Boats roaels and hues and shoot them to debilitate thee how long it would take for them to recover and maybe even see whether they can recover on their oithout food and water But not surprisingly, Josiah and the Watchers insisted that the best they can do is deprive theet