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E as well as she laid her head at the stone wall beside Anya’s

“Anya” Precious Ashley Her face was pale, her lips quivering, tears streaking her face as she knelt in front of Anya, then curled into a small ball on her side, her head in Anya’s lap “I don’t like this,” she sobbed at Anya’s knee “I don’t like this They separated us They took you from us,” she cried “I don’t like this, Anya”

Anya sobbed with her

“Don’t let them take you from us,” Emma whispered tearfully “Please, Coya You’ve always been our coya You’ve always been our leader Don’t let them take us anymore”

Her fierce, ditzy little Ashley Anya buried her hand in the girl’s hair as she laid her head against Emma’s, then reached up and drew Sharone to them

Untamed, so filled with pride, and yet tears streaainst Anya’s shoulder And not for the first tirieved Because freedom was supposed to ain could an order separate them And yet that was exactly what had torn them apart The order of the man Anya loved

It was ale to hold on, just a while longer, then it would be over She would be the traitor and the Coyotes that had once followed her would once again follow Del-Rey

And Anya would finally, irrevocably, be alone

Del-Rey stepped into the infir a hole in his mind as he listened to the reports on the couards She had gone into the caverns and simply disappeared

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Sitting on a gurney was his brother, the youngest, the one Del-Rey had despaired of saving when the boy was no more than a babe And now, Del-Rey wanted to kill him

Jax sat on the gurney, wincing as Regan stitched a part of his ear back where it belonged Cavalier was there, under guard, willingly

There were six Coyote soldiers covering him, but behind them were six others, the Russian Coyotes, and they looked furious

He stared at Jax as the otherto lift his head

“Ashley cut his ear off,” Briular”