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I made it all of twenty feet before Eris ed in front of me and struck

A backhanded blow to the face, so hard ain before I could even fall, a punch to s Beyond me, Lucien had unleashed himself upon his two brothers Metal and fire blasted and collided, ice spraying

I’d no sooner hit the ice than Eris grabbed rip so brutal tears stung ed ainst the blow to et a wisp of air down ainst the ice as I feebly kicked, yet Eris held firm--

I think Lucien shoutedof fire shoved its way between h to tell me it would if Eris willed it Equal bands of flame wrapped around my wrists, my ankles My throat

I couldn’t remember--couldn’t remember what to do, how to move, how to stop this--

Closer and closer to the shore, to the awaiting party of sentries that ed in out of nowhere No, no, no--

A shadow sla the ice toward every horizon

Not a shadow

An Illyrian warrior

Seven red Siphons glinted over his scaled black ars and snarled at Eris with five centuries’ worth of rage

Not dead Not hurt Whole

His wings repaired and strong

I loosed a shuddering sob over the burning gag Cassian’s Siphons flickered in response, as if the sight of me, at Eris’s hand--

Another impact struck the ice behind us Shadows skittered in its wake

Azriel

I began crying in earnest, so free as my friends landed As I saw that Azriel, too, was alive, was healed As Cassian drein Illyrian blades, the sight of theest you dropa whimper fro

But his hazel eyes slid toht rasp How to e not only my body, but my mind

As if he’d known that it was a very real possibility that this scenario would one day happen

Eris had bound my liic

And getting hio, to let Cassian ju overon the ice, and sla over with a grunt

Right into the fisted, bound hands I drove into his nose Bone crunched, and his hand sprang free ofaway Cassian was already there

Eris hardly had tiht his on upon hi out across the ice Sentries on the shore unleashed arrows of wood and ainst a shield of blue