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"Rise, red as the dawn"
The spiraling passage choruses with the battle cry
We’re al to keep up with Tyton’s pace Farleyup the white marble beneath our feet
"Rise, red as the dawn"
Kilorn’s voice joins the din
"Rise, red as the dawn"
The lights overhead flicker in tih the ranks of red and green, Scarlet Guard and Montfort The range of faces, skin every shade, blood both colors, all speaking in shuddering unison Some raise their fists or weapons or both, but no one is silent Our voices are so loud I can barely hear my own
"Rise, red as the dawn"
I call to lightning, call to thunder, call to all the strength left in s I have to worry about topside are myself, Kilorn, and Farley, if she’ll let me That’s all I have the capacity for
And Cal, wherever he reater force Defending a city froreat doors of the Treasury, vaulting out into the spiraling rain with Maven in tow The younger prince skids, his shoes sliding over the wet tiles of Caesar’s Square, but Tyton keeps his grip I follow, half expecting Tyton to kill Maven on the spot, already shivering in the rain We never planned on letting Maven survive the battle And we don’t need hiht now
I feel tugged by both ends of the decision As if it’s really my decision to rasp, al Maven down Tyton isn’t as temperamental as the rest of us He is slow to fury, even noith Maven in hand He’s a good jailer for someone the rest of us despise so rit out, head still bowed He extends his white hands and I watch his fingers tremble in the rain Like me, he knohere this road leads
Behind us, more andthe words of the Scarlet Guard They fill the space with color, unifor I focus on the fallen king, now shuddering a hundred yards frounfire and explosions barely penetratesto goad Tyton
Or me
Above us, the stor before it crackles across the sky, purple and white, an emblem of our presence Let Cal knoe’re here
"You don’t have anyfamiliar paths "Be done with it"
Slowly, he raises his eyes to er
"Ty--" I start, but the word is hardly out ofover the columned walls of the Treasury