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Was this it for her? Would she die crushed in the tombs? Would she be buried beneath the rubble with those already dead?
Her breathing constricted as panic set in She had survived s and averted disaster a time or two, but this ay beyond her ability to fix—there was nothing she could do against such a force She would never see her father or her aunts again, or Condor, or her friends She closed her eyes against the devastation and chaos, wondering what death would really be like
As if in answer, she felt the presence of the death god’s steed beside her She opened her eyes to find the stallion standing there in the corridor with her, hisin a supernatural breeze
“Can you make this stop?” she asked Or, had he come to claim her?
He turned his head just enough to fix her with one obsidian eye That eye was a turan shook her head and looked away, fearing she’d get swept away in that gaze
The destruction around her seeh the closeness of the stallion buffered her fro a powdery dust The spirits whirled and rose and vanished into it
“Well?” Karigan de to do?”
He snorted at her as ifher impertinence, then knelt down before her
“Oh, no,” Karigan said, backing away “This is your thing to fix Your od of death, and this is—this is dead business”
His gaze caught her again and this time she could not escape She was drawn into a vision of hisIn it she ept out of the to the stars as if suspended on wings Below her she saw the castle and Sacor City It was still dark and street laht Despite the darkness, she could see everything: how the buildings shook and houses cruave way The towers of the castle wobbled People fell fro through the streets Fires consuhborhoods
It was as if the hill the castle and city sat upon was co to shake the constructions of humanity off its back
A castle turret toppled, then another, and a portion of the roof fell in Karigan screa with those in the vision
The hill then heaved and collapsed in on itself taking the castle and about a third of the city doith it, leaving a vast s, she realized, or s out of the crater like a nant cloud