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Cade's eyes narrowed "Oh, that!" he roared, redoubling his fight -

Fangs sank into Mari's ankles As she cried out in pain, her body began to , "Tierney!" With supernatural speed, the archer covered him with a torrent of arrows, but there were too ht at them

Blood sprayed up from Cade's body, and he belloith fury

As she screaed her back in frenzied yanks Mari clawed at the stones, shrieking as it snatched her into the darkness

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Pit of the Fyre Dragán, Yélsérk, Hungary

Finale of the Talisman's Hie

Prize: The blade of the blind ht he would have Mariah back

One last contest One last struggle to put his wasted body through Then his reward

As he loped through a sweltering tunnel toward the Fyre Dragán's pit of flaht-headed anticipation that warred with the pain fro

The Hie had been as cutthroat as he'd expected - and as he'd been prepared to be - but the witch had had the last laugh

The spell from the tomb that he'd believed was harh hiest roots, day by day it leached away his ienerate, and for the first ti In fact, he'd barely made it to the finals of this coth than in the Hie