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Tess

My eyes shot open,Tess had the power to go back in tiht be dead He didn’t have to stay that way

She and I had saved his sight by reversing time; we could save his life! And Selena’s We could save Jack’s entire Azey army I just had to reach Tess

She, Gabriel, and Joules had been a couple of days out of Fort Arcana The three would have heard the attack, would’ve returned

I had to get back there How? I didn’t know its location--or my own I believed the fort was in northern Tennessee Or Kentucky Ish

The storm had dwindled, the winds not as fierce, and the water had receded until the depth looked to be no more than a few feet Which ht, I craned looht, I could just make out the rey filledwith purpose The stueneration, lyphs radiated like a spotlight, a beacon in the black

With one ar down Muscles so stiff Each tirip, I had to lean into the tower to balance ly place my feet lower down So slow

And every moment since that massacre counted Each second that Tess went back in time drained her of life; she’d nearly died when I’d forced her to go back just eleven or so minutes With my claws sunk into her ar out, her bones jutting

How much time had passed since the Emperor’s attack? I could have been unconscious for hours--or days How far away had the flood carried et to Tess

I would need so much more from her than minutes But I could ith her until her power bloomed, until she could withstand the deot her to reverse time by days, yet we still h to take out the Eet Circe to attack hihter in my headafter Circe’s flood, not just before How had he survived? If the Priestess couldn’t take him out, was Richter invulnerable?

I couldn’t worry about that Not yet Aric had killed the Erandmother would be a wealth of information as well Because of Aric, she was alive and safe at his castle

With their help, I could learn how to destroy Richter For now, I just needed to get to Tess On a clock Tick-tock No ti in a breath, I closedfro

Pain!

Rebar jutted from my side Shit, shit! Don’t panicI forced ht, but I was trapped on the ringed metal No time for this!