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me dead. That's ho
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through the t
heading
let her
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caught myself, cradling the rough bark of a tree. For a second, I s
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ferent this time. The
wore a long black coat over dark armor, with a silver crest that glinted in the
hest clenched. I'd never seen him befo
wed low. "Yo
I'd heard the stories, even from the kitchen maids he
ss or bleeding feet. He just
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girl?" His vo
our Hig
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unching on the wet ground. He came close
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, backing up until tree bark dug into my
ld. I struggled. "Let me go!" I
ts and sleeves. Came up empt
second, I wondered did he believe
int, but visible eve
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napped back to the soldiers. Suddenl
in me fro
ed out of th
be serious,
ace didn
an escape. But there w
my arm. I screamed in shock and fea
the world
t like he'd been stabbed. Soldiers s
slipped through his fingers only, his chest wasn't woun
el gasped the same pain,
to understand. "What is hap
shivered under my skin a warmth in my blood. I looke
rk was gl
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y hand, then my arm, un
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