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Rainne and Alastair

Alastair landed face first in the snow Pain surged through him Aye, those ribs were definitely broken now He focused on breathing slowly, hoping to ease the pain That hen the gunfire started Lots and lots of gunfire

Rainne

He scanned around hie in the di snowmobiles

Rainne?

There

The silhouette of a body lying against a tree

She wasn’t

Rainbow!

Alastair sed panic that felt a whole lot like terror, and struggled to sit up The world swayed and tilted He fell to his side on the snow and pure agony racked his body More gunfire rent the air Who was shooting? Was Lake here? Alastair worked on breathing calmly as stars danced in front of his eyes

He saw the shadow of a figure, crouching low to the ground andfast towards the castle Eneh hihts

He had to get to Rainne

He had to get her out of har And no one kneas out there with Rainne If they weren’t being deliberately targeted, they could still get caught in the crossfire They needed to get inside Now

Slowly Agonisingly He crawled across the snow Every breath was a knife to his chest He could barely feel his fingers, which was probably a good thing, as it e and was now bent at an unnatural angle Bloody hell, he was a mess No use to anyone