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Day 382 AF

Death kept taking ers splayed toward the heat of that seething pool of lava "He can’t be dead," I sobbed "Can’t NO, NO, NOOOO!"

"You want to follow the e first The Emperor hing

The red witch exploded inside me, a force that could never be contained I shrieked, "You will PAY!"

As the Erandift I spoke of We’ll teach you how to kill the Ee Deveaux"

"Don’t you understand? Jack’s not DEAD!" I screa on the brink, I spied so

Real? Unreal? Just before oblivion tooktoward that hell of fla wave Taller than a skyscraper --Terror from the abyss!--

--Quake beforeme back from the blackness

"Come!" Aric snatched me into his arms and sprinted from the clash "When theyhihter into screaave a sharp whistle; a horse’s nickering answered Thanatos With me secure in his arms, Aric leapt into the saddle, and spurred the warhorse into a frenzied gallop

We all but dove down a slope--passing the ed up the next rise

I gazed over Aric’s shoulder as that tidal wave crested above Richter’s lake of lava

Heaving breaths, Aric kept Thanatos at a breakneck pace Up another mountain Down another slope--

Circe struck

A hiss like a giant beast’s A detonation like a nuclear bomb The shock as so loudthe Flash

The air grew hotter and hotter The world rocked as a blast of scalding steam chased us

BOOM! The force sheared off the top of a mountain behind us Boulders crashed all around as we careened into yet another valley Still we rode