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rel

ust as his shadow sli

d my ankles. I stood

locked on my h

oked

my thumb. A crescent moon tangled in fine

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tep closer. His eyes

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y skin. My head throbbed, like something

n I fell," I said, but the word

uched it, a strange pu

y eyes. My knees wobb

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ver dress clung to a wo

owls. A c

crowd, his face hidde

or me, touch

deep insid

a

ld sorrow.

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atched m

pale,"

around the mark. "I'

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away. "Stay o

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robbed like

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n it did, it dragged m

ground. A name called aga

rown. A hand grippin

enough to touch, but neve

thless, skin d

*

early. No time to breathe.

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aid quickly, s

ng like it. Get

ands stayed red and raw. My knees ached. H

ld firm. I wouldn'

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arms full o

he edge of the ya

a trainee's grip, fly

ed before I

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roached, e

moved

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mark a

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skin. I stood on the

oden dagger my way

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act

ted, the

dod

ga

. Misse

r. Faster. Movements I didn't know I had ta

. "You were trained. No

s hung i

ut through

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t me from the e

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ster. Not

ace. Nothing f

pped like thunder.

e damage was done. The

ed to

wed, brighter than befo

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s h

*

with Darius, the ai

of dawn - now watched me with a sharpness in their eyes that cut deeper than wor

elt

nded me things wit

laughter stopped

Maybe it was just me. Ma

irring the broth in silence,

Darius would raise