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Brooklynn cocked her head, stepping over Delta’s liun out of her way She sidestepped the blood that was pooling on the floor, coht? You know you glow, don’t you? You’re pretty lanced down atun--one I hadn’t even realized she’d been carrying--

at the ready "I saw someone else" She tipped her head toward the classrooo in there?" she asked, and when I nodded ed the door open with the toe of her boot

I felt like I should do so Instead I just stood there, helpless I voice call out

The little boy’s coughs reached me then, from inside the room, and I realized the children were still in there With an armed man A cornered man

I stepped closer, unable to stop ued that I shouldn’t, that I should stay backwhere it was safe

I saw hiun held to the side of Phoenix’s head Still coughing on the thick sh the doorway, and I wondered how I host An apparition

"Get away froher, holding hi his s only his shins and his feet exposed, and giving Brook no kill shot Still, I watched as Brook took another step closer

"Move away fro in Terain with her I’d never heard soes before and it was disorienting "Let o, and I’ll release the kid"

Brook’s eyebrow ticked up as she took a step sideways I wondered what she was doing, what her plan was, because I was certain she must have one Brook always had a plan "Put the boy down and I’ll let you escape with your life," she answered in Englaise

He matched her pace Each time she moved closer, he moved away But every step seemed to lead him nearer to the doorway Wasn’t that what the o?

"I don’t believe you," he hissed, foregoing Parshon now in favor of Englaise "Your father said you were a liar He warned us not to trust you"

Brook stiffened, her face beco a wall of ice Impenetrable Arctic