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Everyone watchedas confused as I did
"Sorry, folks, that’s all she wrote And it doesn’t help Allis that the secrets Sarah was asked to keep involved the location of the relics, and that she was bade to write them in the books But she didn’t, and she made her clues obtuse on purpose Then her ’s raspy voice echoed Blondie’s obvious disappointalomaniacs are a dime a dozen here on the Great Island Between human leaders and supernatural ones, I can think of a dozen possibilities off the top of my head We need to narrow it down"
"We need," ruood will that do if her memory’s been scrubbed?" I asked
"Brains aren’t easy to wipe entirely clean Traces of things coht not knohat she knows, but shethat tips us off We need to talk to her"
"And fast," Magog said "Because if we need to talk to her…"
"So does Morrigan," Blondie said, already inning to feel like that was our modus operandi, as really bad superheroes: "Too Late To Save Shit! But We Gave It A Go!"
Sarah was in very bad shape e arrived At first I thought she was dead, as she was laying in a fetal position in a huge pool of blood, her arms wrapped around the center of her body A horrible smell permeated the air--shit, and blood, and fear For a terrible second I was back in the Healer’s mansion, surrounded by his victims and his instruments of torture My head spun, but Anyan’s hand on my nape settled me until my concern for Sarah could do the rest
It was only ere closer and could see her failing powers attee her into versions of all of us, that we realized she was still alive But barely Her eyes were closed, and I prayed she had passed out The painin with hands and healing powers extended But when she ed to peel Sarah’s are was A slash across her body had her guts spilling out I was no doctor, but I knew enough about anatomy that I understood, fro for this world without soical intervention But her wounds resisted even Blondie’s powerful healing inal sobbed, tears streauts into her belly and held the wound shut
Anyan, unspeaking, added his power to hers, but still nothing happened
"The Red did this," I said, re what I’d read in the history books I choked back the bile that rose in my throat, as Sarah didn’t deserve any weakness from me, and continued "Wounds froic"
Blondie looked at rief
"Try the ax," she said "Try the creature’sforth the labrys and pulling on its power I glanced at Anyan, who directed all that strength forhappened
"Call an aed "Call the huaveand nodded The raven frowned, but eventually she stood with her cell phone, then began pressing buttons and speaking rapidly as she left the room
When we turned back to Sarah,that she had co on Blondie with an expression curiously serene She reached with shaking hands to touch Blondie’s face as she tried to speak Her fingers left streaks of blood, like exclamation points, down Blondie’s cheeks
Sloeakly, Sarah began speaking
"I don’t knohat she wanted," she whispered "But I think I told her what she needed She seemed pleased with me Then she did this She asked, about ?"
At those words, fat tears spilled from Sarah’s eyes She probably couldn’t even reicked as she was by Alfar spells But she knew the stakes were high and that so way in that roo on her words "You haven’t ruined everything, beautiful girl You were brave and strong, as you alere And clever But we must know your research too Where is it?"
"She took my laptop, but I have Dropbox Check my work comp My password is Cyntaf"
Sarah’s body convulsed then, with pain or in the throes of death, I don’t know Blondie cried out as if she were the one wounded, and I realized I was crying Even Hiral looked rim resolve, but I knew inside he would mourn this brave woiven an arbitrary task by the Alfar