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"Liliana" Jissa’s breathless voice "You mustn’t, no, no He is a monster, a terrible monster, when the curse is upon him"

Liliana snapped her head toward the brownie "So am I, Jissa" She was the worst monster of all "Tell Bard to release me"

"I - " The small woman squared her shoulders "No, ill protect you"

"Then I’ain,blood into herfor not having been woken in days

Lashing out with it, she broke Bard’s hold, sent hi, Jissa’s cry echoing in her ears Sla the door behind herself, she pulled down the brace to lock it None too soon Bard’s body crashed up against it ait would hold for now - hopefully giving Jissa enough ti to follow - Liliana took a breath "Where?" Her heart pounded like a drum in her chest, until she wasn’t certain if she would hear the whispering ghosts

A roar reverberated through the walls

The feral power of it pushed her back a physical step before she shoved it off to run toward the sound as fast as her feet would carry her The blood fro to slow, but she swiped a sreat hall, dropping it into the pocket of her green dress

The hall was a place of splintering chaos

Liliana couldn’t believe the carnage - the e crack running down thearound thereen slippers, she searched for the author of the devastation

"Micah?" Pushing aside an overturned chair, she alht’ve been a water pitcher That hen she noticed the weapons embedded in the walls

There were at least ten, all of the been punched about three inches into solid stone And they were lined up in two neat rows as if they’d been released from some enormous catapult Her heart was in her throat now, but she wouldn’t walk aouldn’t leave hi around her head, she stuainst a chair that was sorip on it kept her fro that hold to steady herself, she scanned the rooe s, tapestries had been shredded from the walls, and furniture destroyed There was no place to hide