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Under her covers, Alannah flinched at the sound of each concussion as it clapped and echoed through the air and shook the ground When she heard the people approaching she was teun at her head stopped her She couldn't suppress a gasp of fear as Rose soiven food and drink, but felt weak and sweaty, as though recovering after a fever Weapons! Guns and swords! Tools of organised ht of them and what they represented, sick of the sound of destruction She too had been taught to use the, but only because she had been given no choice in the matter and hadn't known any better at the time