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I couldn’t screaled to keep ain, Sol didn’t sound proud or regretful "She has tried to un at my chest "Just in case" She fired

Once Twice Three ti on blood Bullets couldn’t hurt so that had already been destroyed

"What a freak" Zara holstered her weapon, shaking her head at reat Eirl" She knelt beside love "And you’re about to become a very unlucky one" She reached for my face--

A wolf howled not far away, then another Lark!

Zara shot to her feet, her gaze darting "Fauna again?" She brandished her pistol onceit in all directions

Sol nodded "Makes sense"

"Get the Eo" She hurried to the copter "Coo!"

When Sol waved his hand, one of the Baground to the copter

The Sun and Fortune were taking me to the Emperor

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As Sol strapped my limp body into a helicopter seat, he yelled to Zara, "We have to GO!" With another wave of his hand, he directed his pet Baggers into two more seats

In the cockpit, Zara flipped switches and twisted dials The engines roared louder Wind swept through the open side door

"Now, Zara!"

She answered with a spiel about "overtorque" and " with "asshole"

She sounded like she knehat she was doing, and she certainly had Sol’s number So this helicopter was a weapon for her Part of Fortune’s Arcana arsenal

Sol had just belted in Joe when she snapped, "Fuck it!" and pulled on some lever between her knees We lurched into the air

I slued to close the side door, but slipped over the er slirabbed a handle for balance Then his eyes ide "Oh, estoy jodido! Death’s riding for us!"

Aric? He was alive! With effort, I turnedon Thanatos The warhorse had survived as well I shouldn’t have been surprised Thanatos bench-pressed three-eighty and swished his tail at floods