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He shook his head "No Not unless we find the tree where my memories are buried Maybe I do not want the that visceral fear knowing he was capable of destroying her so quickly "If you helpway in your redeer"

Explosions screaround rurabbed her tunic and pulled her behind hi sounds ca san to catch fire and trees shattered in the showering hail of blazing pitch Phae glanced around the tree and saw her father running toward the pitch landed in front of the black substance everywhere Part of it struck the tree they sheltered behind and Phae felt it shudder and catch fire

A howl of pain sounded and Phae could not tell which of the men it came from The Kishion took her elbow and yanked her away fro sound ca another plu shards of wood and broken tree lied her up as she stu fire

Phae’s boots sloshed in the water, her heart galloping in fear at the awesoainst the arrows had been launched at once and descended in a cloud Tyrus was pulling the oldpitch Prince Aransetis grabbed Evritt’s other arm and helped haul him toward them in the streaony and he cried out Tyrus removed the cylinder from his robes and held it out for the straight at them Phae took the Kishion’s aran to spin

Trasen gazed at thethe waters and urging the boator into his strokes He was beyond worried He was beyond desperate He had searched the outer tunnel leading beyond Stonehollow for clues, for any trace of Phae’s passing What he found alarround, carving a huge tear in the earth’s skin He had discovered a twisted iron ring abandoned in the crater, which was now in his pocket He had heard stories from Holt about the spells of the Paracelsus He had never witnessed the ic himself

In the dirt nearby he had found Phae’s tracks They were unmistakable He knew the type of boot she wore, the size of her foot His rief and suspense as he tried to decipher the clues Some sort of blast or explosion had happened There were multiple prints as well, the size ofthe road,up the clues in a way that completely befuddled him He wished Holt had been there and would have trusted his an to nod off in the boat and jerked hiain He had not slept properly in days Poor Willow had gone as far as she could go and he had left her with a stableman at the settlement on the lakefront

Phae had siether, four people in total, and then there were none It was as if some enormous invisible hand had snatched the but hope and the fires of love shoving him on, he had decided to press forward to their likely destination--Kenatos Trasen would confront the Arch-Rike if necessary to save her He would do anything to save her

As he stared at the iulls and pennants, the sense of dread and foreboding increased He fished the iron ring out fro it over in his paler It was a twisted, blackened thing--not a decorative ring It had strange black sigils carved on it

"What’s that, lad?" the boat to him

"I paid your fare," Trasen replied hoarsely "Leave ht of s was a distant ?"

Trasen stuffed it back into his pocket and folded his arhout his body He had never pushed hi without proper sleep Hisof worry and pain Would he ever see Phae again? He regretted that he had not confided in her his plans, why he wanted so much to join the Wayland army and save his ducats He wanted to seek a homestead with her, to be with her always He shuddered with suppressed eht feelwhat they already shared, he had been reluctant to reveal his heart to her