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“I shouldn’t have taken you fro” Silas feared ould come next as Mara stood and frowned “Just kill me, be done with it”

A loud crack carey ceiling faded away, then back in as the heat frohed up a mouthful of hot bile and spat it over his chin “I’”

Mara brought his nose to Silas’s “You don’t have to be sorry You helped ”

Silas stared into Mara’s grey eyes There was no reasoning with him There was no boy left “Finish it, demon”

Mara smiled and pinched Silas’s cheek, then leant down to whisper in his ear “You don’t get to die”

Silas’s head wobbled gently fro? He lay on so feet first Where the hell a? A sharp pain crept into the ain

His mouth was dry, but when he tried to lick his lips, he couldn’t open them Dried shut? I need water His arms wouldn’t move He focused on his chest He breathed slowly, hardly at all

He ed to open his left eye the tiniest aave way to the shape of an arm Mumbled voices sounded far away A hooded head came into focus above the arm Mara? His eye shut without his perain Where a

The next ti a hard surface The voices were louder now, but he still couldn’t ain, still only the sht forced it shut immediately Was that the sun?

Each tiain, it was a little better until finally, he saw blue The sky? I’m outside The pain in his head caain,sound A cart? A too drunk?

He tried to speak He needed to ask as happening but still couldn’t open his ed His heart sank as he re Favian, he’s told the

Two voices, both nise either of them He could smell horses and felt every bump in the road They definitely had him in the back of a cart A new pain, not just the one in his head Somewhere else Why can’t I pin it down? Somewhere around his arm, shoulder, and neck His eye wouldn’t open at all

The cart came to a stop, and he felt a wobble and heard a few thuds They’re getting off This could be the Shadow Castle He felt hi slid backward The voices were louder, closer, but still mumbled He could hear a woman’s voice A woman? It can’t be the Shadows Has Favian abducted me himself? Is it one of his whores?

He bounced gently as they carried him on what had to be a stretcher It became cooler all of a sudden as if under shade, footsteps click-clacking like they walked on stone He tried his eye again, but as he did, so cold and wet covered it It felt wonderful Slowly, the feeling spread to his other eye It was the first time he realised it was there That one avebad one not to remember what happened

He was placed on so soft A bed? Arms and hands crept underneath him The uessed they were counting He rose briefly, then returned to a led away