Seconds later, Cress took the sisters down two at a time right in the dreaded middle of the human street, but the treacherous members of the Sisterhood of Assassins kept getting back up. They beat him, only by a miracle of the sky deities, with claws and needles and wills of iron. They forced him into an alley, and there Cress laid his head back as the dizzy, endless dark came to steal him. But then her voice sailed in against the black waves, plunging into his mind and releasing ripples through his thoughts. “Wait!” she screamed before the Sisterhood killed him. And that had been enough.
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