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them, Manon smiled slightly.
He surprised her further by saying, “I’ve
been tunneling into my power since they
appeared. One wrong move from them, and
I’ll blast them into nothing.”
A shiver rippled down her back at the cold
violence in his voice. “We need them as
allies.” Everything she was to do today,
tonight, was to seal such a thing.
“Then let’s hope it doesn’t come to that,
witchling.”
Manon opened her mouth to answer.
But a horn, shrill and warning, blasted
through the descending night.
Then the beating of mighty leathery wings
boomed across the stars.
The camp was instantly in action, shouts
ringing out from the scouts who’d sounded the
alarm. The Thirteen closed ranks around
Manon, weapons drawn.