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ing lecture hall thirty min
ed only by the floating globes of witch-ligh
still clung to t
sat, marched straight down to the front of the amphitheater
ing behind her scarf, she stopped dead in her tracks
doing down here? This is the line of fire! Foster spits when she
enly, arranging my inkwell, quill, and pr
tered, but she took the seat to my left anyway
n, filling the b
stone walls, but every time the heavy oak
ed in the crimso
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nto the room, her dark c
n her wake, his head held r
stopped
heartbreaki
et filled out with the muscle he woul
arbones sharp against the threa
ded to a dull, washed-out greenish gray, the silve
r cracked at the toes where no wat
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s a column o
shadowing a face of striking, severe beauty-high cheekbones, a sharp
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on the fringes of the realm, feared for their destructive fire-mag
at the cente
own," she
replaced by a suffocat
lski of Abyssal House will be joining our pra
eyes swept acros
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offer a po
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r rippled through the Avi
but she simply gestured to
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climb the stairs toward the very last row-the broken, drafty corner under the back rafters wher
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t the stone rang through the dead
ill suspended over h
, her hand shooting out to grab my
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d her co
le, placing myself dir
opped three
ned slightly, the first crack in
tensing as if bracing for a public humiliation f
the lump i
le, but I forced it to ring clear, loud enough
est, most genuine smile I possessed. "I'm Giana
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