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“That’s good Coymnastics ere kids You can do it!” Sophie shouted Her heart was lodged in her throat This was risky So risky If Liza swung the wrong way, she’d hit the saw

She looked for Mick, hearing the general crash of the fight in the far corner, but she couldn’t actually see anything They were stillhis own

Her mind was split between prayers of safety for Mick and shouts of encourage two feet Four

“Keep kicking!”

A horrible screah the warehouse

The roof! Oh gods the storm is on top of us!

The roof peeled back as if by the hands of an enraged Titan and the howl of wind battered her senses Above her soround All around her, wood and scaffolding began to slide and tuale She dove flat on the ay, narrowly avoiding a wooden crate as it pinwheeled above her Glass shattered On the cable Liza was buffeted, swinging now in a circular motion instead of back and forth, closer and closer to the saw

“No!”

Sophie looked around frantically for a rope, a chain, anything she could toss out to try and snag Liza But there was nothing

Fro crash

“Insolent dog!” snarled Cassius His hand wrapped tightly around Mick’s throat, shoving hiainst the brick wall Another few inches and his neck was going to snap

“Mick!” she screamed

Desperate, enraged, Sophie drew herself up in the center of the chaos and lifted her face to the hellish sky I rain, the pulsing heart of power at the center of the hurricane It was hers to command

She was the eye of the storm

The building shuddered as she dren the wind With one part of her y field glowing bright and bold The rest of her focus was on Mick