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Sunlathened me before But I sensed I was beyond help He hurried down theme, "Stay with me You must stay with ainst the blazing overhead light I heard shears as my clothes were cut away

Lark sucked in a breath "She’s one big wound I’ve seen roadkill in better shape"

"Enough!" Aric snapped

A man said, "She’s been bitten multiple times Those are bullet wounds in her chest The EMT? Wasn’t his nas aredone What do you expect rated, "Unless you want to die byhis face would look right now I’d been on the receiving end of his threats enough

"I-I’ll try to clean these wounds, sir," Paul said, his voice scaling higher "And start a drip Lark, can you help me? She’s lost a lot of blood"

"Shouldn’t Eves have started healing?" Lark asked "When I sliced off her cilice down here, she was regenerating in seconds"

"Give her tinificant" He brushed daht, sievā You will heal You always heal"

I could feel the wareneration--

A worandmother?

I tried to say, "Gran" Blood caht to reach her She ith me at last, but I couldn’t speak a word

"The Sun did this to her," Gran said "Did you kill hiht?" I sensed her and Paul on one side of me, Aric and Lark on the other

"No I believe they survived the helicopter crash" They had?

"Then why don’t you leave o finish the job?" She sounded as murderous as Aric had

"I won’t leave until she’s healed"

"You should have found her sooner! How could you not find her before this happened?" Why washim? "You’ve located her so many times before"

I knew she considered him a villain, but couldn’t she see that he cared forher back to this castle--for er arht turn

Sounding like he was about to strangle her, Aric said, "The Fool has silenced our calls" No wonder I’d heard nothing What was Matthew up to? "After following every mile of the flood’s path, every fork, every twist and turn, I scoured the countryside for the Empress--from here to Fort Arcana For some reason, she went in the opposite direction of this castle I wisely had Lark dispatch sentries in all directions"