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By cutting Wendos down, I ended whatever horrible spell he and his colleagues were constructing.
With another step, I can see him.
Wendos sprawls on his side on the floor of the tower platform, unmoving, his limbs strewn about. But as I watch, his chest lifts and falls with a halting breath.
I hit him hard, but I didn’t kill him. I held on to that one bit of control.
Julita laughs more openly, with a sensation as if she’s spinning excitedly in my head.You did it! You knocked him right down.She pauses.What exactlywasit you did?
My lips part. Before I can decide on an answer, a different voice that’s no longer unfamiliar reverberates through my nerves as if from all around me.
Well done, my wayward rogue. When you welcome me, I can come. And I suspect we’ll work together again before long. But for now you have a rather different problem to attend to.
What?
I freeze, my gaze searching the platform for potential threats—and the rasp of an indrawn breath carries from behind me.
I spin around and find myself facing three men who’ve stiffened where they’re standing just past the final bend in the stairs.
Casimir’s expression looks sickly. Alek is leaning against the wall as if he’s about to fall right over.
And Stavros…
Stavros is staring at me like he’s never seen me before. Staring at the bare skin down my sternum it’s too late to hide, where no godlen sigil brands my flesh.
Staring around me at the vegetation called up by a power no godless person should be able to wield. Past me toward the man I struck down with that power.
“I stopped him,” I say, my voice coming out with a creak. “I stopped him.”
But it looks like I haven’t yet paid the price.
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