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Mara touched gently at the edges of the blade where it pierced Silas’s skin “I think I can help you”

“You need to run The Shadoant you dead”

Mara’s head twisted as his gaze came back to Silas’s “Dead?”

Silas felt cold suddenly, and it felt like Mara’s eyes drove his head into the floor “Yes Leave now, run away, and never come back”

“No I will kill them I will kill them all” Mara looked up at the wall “Help him”

Who is he talking to? A warh Silas’s body He felt cale screa He lay completely still, unable to move or talk

Mara undid Silas’s blade sheath and tied it around himself, then tucked Silas’s blade in it “Don’t follow me, Silas”

Mara’s eyes were cold Silas felt like they looked into his mind I’m sorry You should not be part of this world This is all my fault

Mara stood “Do not be sorry Without you, I would be nothing”

Silas fought to stay awake as a coldness spread over the warmth Come with me

Mara walked into the barrel room The servant boy was nowhere to be seen, nor were Mara’s old clothes Which wasn’t a bad thing He had no idea how long he’d been in the castle All the days had ed into one He knocked on the tunnel door three times

“Hello?” the guard said

“Open the door”

“Who’s there?”

Mara sighed “You said you’d be waiting for me”