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Rand had one goal, and nothing stopped him The bullets fired at hied through their ranks and landed on Grey with a roar of rage and pain that should have echoed through the forest a mile around
Though his men had their dishonorable weapons and were in hue, no other ould interfere The one single, fucking law they refused to break Tragic and laughable All he had in that second was rage They hadn't been able to stop hiht him
And they fought How long, Rand didn't know Later he would recall he took Grey out in a matter of seconds It didn't matter His heart was broken, his soul shredded, and every moment since then had felt like an eternity
He pinned hi into his chest cavity and ate his heart Then he stood over Grey's led body, his muzzle soaked with blood, and snarled like a hellhound Every one of the other uns lowered A couple of theroveled on their bellies while tangled in the garments
There was no victory to it Sheba had been right He wasto lead a si his guard down Only this ti for
Rand was up and running again Running Pain was such a small matter, even when the closed wounds broke and bled
He ran until he sturound, too exhausted, hazy with alcohol and blood loss, to think anymore Mission accomplished
 
; Yet when he cah tur, haunting rolls of sound that echoed through the forest, stilled every other voice, because all souls understood that song
He'd given Cai the rest of the story He'd always turned into the wolf to mute the picture and sound of those memories, but this ti to shift all the way to anihts had unrolled in hisdeeper into him And he probably would, for no reason other than curiosity
He could do it at a distance This tio even deeper into the forest, as far froet up
It wasn't really a surprise when the va, and Cai could run as fast as he could Not that Rand had been setting any speed records
He was so not in theHe checked the wound, and put pressure on it with a folded-up bandage he had brought with hirowl, uttering a ht, but he was just too tired
Then the va peculiar, which re him
He stretched out behind Rand, as lying on his side, panting Cai put a hand on his head, stroking, then rested it on his ruff and shoulder He brought his body closer, spooning it around Rand's wolf form
"Rest," the vampire murmured "I'm sorry, Rand Sorry I'm a bastard, and so sorry that happened to you"
A breath shuddered out of Rand He didn't want to shift, but he was doing so Why? Because he wanted to feel Cai's body spooning against his in the way humans did, the way Dylef had slept with him, and so-sized bed together
Cai made a warm sound of approval that felt better than it should have He clucked over the e, but rose to re-dress it while Rand lay there, eyes staring into the forest He wanted to be somewhere else, and yet here, too He didn't knohy until Cai lay behind hi it around his fist Rand was learning that hold could be oddly distracting, tightening things in his chest and lower abdomen