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But after a long, difficult minute, she slowly released his neck and once more began moving her left arm around his back, inching across.
I think whatever it is, it’s lower down your spine.
He felt her hand, then nothing.
I’ve got it. It’s a dagger. Lev must have done this on his way out. Marius, can you heal from a spinal injury?
Yes, but there’s something else I have to know. I’ve been losing too much blood. The explosion might have done something even worse to me. I need to know if my legs are still there?
Marius!
Please look. I’ve got to know what I’m working with here.
Shayna crawled up his body to look over his shoulder, and kept crawling until she was bent over him. Rock us back and forth. If your legs are there, I should be able to see them from the momentum.
Marius slowed down and, while still moving toward Cuba, he started the rocking motion.
I’m not seeing anything yet, rock more. That’s it. Two more rocks, then she called out. “Marius, I can see them.” She switched back to telepathy. Your legs are intact, but blood is trailing into the air.
Okay, next I need you to get the knife out of me. I can only stop the bleeding if I can feel the source.
But you’ll be in an enormous amount of pain. The explosion pitted your legs. Your boots are half gone.
Marius took three deep breaths. I’ll be okay. Just pull out the blade.
He felt her calm herself and finally said, Okay, I’ve got the handle. Ready?
Do it.
She told him what she was doing, step by step, until the blade was free.
He felt the result in increments as he sent his self-healing well into his spinal cord and second by second sealed up the wound. But the moment he restored the nerves, it was like a fire pouring into his lower extremities. He shouted a string of profanity, long and loud.
Shayna clung to him then pressed her wrist up to his face once more.
Again, he hurt her with a second desperate strike of his fangs, once more sucking hard. But each swallow eased him and powered him. Quill was right: Shayna was special.
Despite her blood, however, he now shook all over from the hit his body had taken and he kept losing altitude. At least the healing had started.
The next moment, however, he saw two vampires in flight, both big men—and they didn’t belong to Rumy. Shayna, we’re in trouble. Incoming.
She shifted, an arm around his neck. Without thinking, she threw the blade she had in her hand, the one she’d taken out of his back, with surprising expertise. Immediately one of the men had a dagger in his neck and fell from the sky clutching at the blade.
The other reached Marius at almost the same time, but then suddenly he stopped midair, looking around. At first, Marius didn’t know what had happened until he realized that Shayna had made them both invisible.
He breathed a sigh of relief and kept flying. Can you hold us in this invisible state?
For a little while. That was close.
You saved us. But Shayna, have you ever thrown a dagger before?
No, but I’ve watched you and I think the chains did something. I just sort of knew how to throw. How strange is that?
You’re amazing was the only thing he could think to say. His mind had started winking out, but he took her arm once more and continued to drink from her while he worked at healing his body and at trying to support their altitude.
More than once Daniel’s men showed up, apparently following their trajectory, so he chose to d
rop them another forty feet. After that, he saw no more of the enemy.
