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Gwenvael saw soldiers irl to dash off to the side to avoid the crush of his dragon body

"Dragon!" He expected them to run They always ran before But these troops didn’t

And he suddenly realized that Annwyl hadn’t been the only one expected So had a dragon

Annwyl slammed her blade into another soldier’s belly and sliced him open She snatched thethe bowels that fell to the ground in front of her, and turned to face the next attacker They wanted to get her in those nets, but she knehat thatback to her brother and any tortures he had planned for her The thought chilled her to the bone and spurred her speed andoff ar nets She realized quickly how her training with Fearghus benefited her as she lobbed off another arm and removed the man’s head She moved faster now Her attacks ry she ith him But then she ree

She heard Gwenvael’s roar of anger and turned to find that a separate group of on down They had ropes wrapped around his neck and at least thirty round He blasted a feith a breath of fire, but she recalled that in his human form Gwenvael had been quite ill She now realized that saon as well A few more moments, and he would be down and the soldiers would take hi another soldier’s head as she passed by She slid to a stop under the dragon’s neck and slashed at the ropes holding hi as many as she could into tenvael pulled up as so the last few intact ropes with hiutted several of them, and took a few heads

"Fire!"

Annwyl crossed her blades in front of her as archers released a volley of arrows But they never reached her as white flaon appeared over the battle, his flaon swooped down and snapped up a carriage of soldiers, tossing theolden brother, blasting the last of theropes

"Take her!" he barked at the now-free Gwenvael

"What about you?"

"We’re fine Take her!"

Another group of ed Annwyl She readied her blades but suddenly found herself gripped firmly about the waist and airborne She watched the land recede froht

"You bastard! Let ripped her tighter "You get hurt, he’ll kill hus watched Briec and Morfyd unleash lines of flaroup of ust, Fearghus spit out a fireball and watched with little satisfaction as theto escape "Briec! Kill thehus walked out aht still lived Morfyd landed in front of him

He nodded toward the empty spot where Gwenvael first stood and the ropes that lay there "Seems I was expected as well"

His sister nodded "Seerowled "I am not happy, sister"

"I can tell"