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Mara looked back to the castle Must be bad inside if they’re taking the king away He smiled “C –”

Mara’s legs were kicked out from beneath hi his nose He slowed tiolden handle came at him

He tried to shuffle backwards, only to find hih as he could, but it wasn’t enough The blade ripped through his ear The attacker followed up with a knee, set free and to his feet

The twins fro stared back at him They both smiled, the scarred tith no front teeth Mara let time return to normal

“Fancy seeing you, ’ere,” the bent nosed twin said

Mara touched at his wet ear that dangled fro it, pulled hard to tear it off The twin’s faces i to horror Mara wiped at the blood that dripped froht you tere dead”

“You wish, cunt,” the toothless twin shouted

Mara spat blood on the floor as he drew Silas’s blade “No You’re going to wish you were”

Silas coughed as he came round in a smoke-filled room “What the fuck?”

The thuds of running footfall passed close by Screams echoed in the distance He crawled to the door His side ached like he’d been hit with a truncheon rather than stabbed He felt where the knife wound should have been How is this possible? I should be dead

A set of dirty, bare feet ran along the sflames Every bit of him ached as he pulled his way up the door fra hard

The ss burned nonetheless, and he continued to cough hard and often People dressed in rags ran around carrying rando people? Have they overrun the city?

A skinny woe painted vase onto the floor, which set rich off that”

Silas smashed the woman’s head into the wall, then pulled her down to kneel on her chest “What the fuck is going on in here?”

The wo anywhere “We got let out the coone mad Just look out the ”