“My heart suspected that this was how it would be,” shesaid. “I know what it means to loseone’s mother. “But why is the life of one child so important?” Aeolus asked. But then she thoughtbetter of it, fearing that it would only worsen their plight.
For the next quarter hour they rode in silence. Feinting high, Tristan quickly reversed his blade’s direction, then brought it around and down. “Those were his exact words,” she whispered, “when he was torturing Alfred. The resulting reaction is always the same—amazing lightning, thunder, and wind.
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