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The battle-witch was running hard through the forest towards the clearing she glied at her purple dress and whipped her exposed skin, leaving angry red lines across her cheeks and forears were heavy, but she continued at the quick pace, the warning scrolling across her hand driving her to hasten her step even ainst her chest with each step was ht, e her with the protection of his kingdorasped it with one hand and felt her poell

She broke out of the dense forest and stopped to suck in a deep breath, eyes taking in the battlefield before her The Shadow Knight's armies were defeated, nearly everyone dead, while the Desert Knight of Brown Sun Lake stood at the center of the last battle

The Shadow Knight knelt before hi from blood loss and his proud boar's head bent in sorrow

Her heart broke for hih her It was, after all, her fault the battle had been lost She'd teht before certain triumph, they both surrendered to their desires for one another instead ofpreparations the way they nor as they ed names, the most sacred act between a reat power

At dawn, he was gone, and theacross her palm She initially did not understand hoas possible, since she had gifted hiift worked when it should not Whatthe man she loved froht raised hisfree from her throat

The sword dropped, and with it, the head of the Shadow Knight

The battle-witch didn't stop running, even when the warriors of Brown Sun Lake rushed to intercept her, not when they fell beneath her power and lay writhing in agony froic

She stopped over the body of her dead lover and husband, tears burning down her cheeks The battle-witch whipped off theher aze to the Desert Knight, who stood ready to take her head next