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A few yards away, a bird rustled the snow off a branch But that was it until another moment went by, when he finally heard a faint and fairly familiar sound It et and even sounded warm somehowif noise could even take on the characteristic of being war, and sounded as if it was sub thicker than water

Aiden stepped forward in the direction of the noise A hurin spread across the part of his face covered by the black scarf His gaze shifted across the empty street toward the sound until it was finally le, human arm lay extended from behind an open threshold of one of the houses Aiden raced to it and pushed the door open farther to see that the arwas shallow, and he was young-only about eighteen, Aiden guessed His heartbeat was so faint; Aiden knew there was no way this person would survive He was dying quickly Perfect

Aiden moved to the boy&039;s side and carefully turned hi in a sharp breath of shock when he saw the huular features The eyes, with the exception of that immortal, deathly color Uncanny But, this was impossible His brow furrowed as he watched the boy&039;s fa out from between his pale, blue lips His breath formed in clouds of round In his fist, he clutched a cru the boy&039;s wrist, he pried his cold fingers open, snatching the docuo syht in his throat as he scanned the words for the i certainly changed the ga so perfectly into place

"How did you get this?" Aiden hissed frantically, the shaking the parchave this to you?"

He was so close to death, dee hue that Aiden hiendary city of Abelim was real! And as more was that this lonely human was linked to the whole affair But did he know it?

"Boy, can you hearthe dark hair away froed so brutally, Aiden wondered if this

The boy finally acknowledged hiht, simple nod of his head Even the mannerisms were eerily similar to Valek&039;s To his sworn enemy

Aiden slipped his hand under his head and pulled the boy fro to harm you," he continued "If you can, answer ain, the boy nodded once, struggling to keep his eyes open, the blood fro over Aiden&039;s arer crafted from the fierce cold, but from fear Aiden could hear it in his mind

"You were attacked?"

He nodded

"You were attacked by so that was not huain Aiden could hear his pulse was continuing to slow as each second ticked by He had only minutes left

"Listen to an again "Do you wish to live?"