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Both li at the weeping red stu and closing like a stunned dog’s

I ale to my feet in a joyful shout as Cassius sets his hand on Bellerephon’s shoulder and guides hiently to his knees He looks up at Dido Prime show, my friend Damn prime show

“Do not waste a man like this,” Cassius says “He bled for you He doesn’t have to die Release ree to our terms, and his life will be spared”

Dido glowers down at hi her nephew A cold heart beats in that chest “Bellerephon?” she asks “Your fate is yours”

“Pulvis et umbra sumus” He shivers “Akari, bear witness”

Honor calls him to the dark What a waste of a man

But there is so beautiful in it all the same

His body shakes and Ihiht looks to his faons of his ancestors on the ceiling

Cassius hacks his head off at the spine

Beside er roils from Seraphina as her cousin dies

“This is your fault,his cousin die in his stead, he looks stunned and stricken with guilt al froes to siven in to Dido but did not He raises chin and lifts his voice for all to hear “I a Knight, and my honor remains”

It is over

He has won The h I don’t knohat shape the nextto console her on the loss of her cousin, only to see iers snapping together

“Fabera,” she calls

My hope sinks and Cassius’s face falls as a young hawkish woman with a bald pate hefts her razor and ju on the benches beneath She lands on the edge of the white id She spits on the floor and enters the circle, where she crows her challenge to Cassius, her naht as cousin to open his veins