“Out,” he said in little more than a whisper, and when I brought up my left hand to strike him, he roared it at me. “Get out!” He swung me off the bed by my hair, dragging me to the window and hurling it open. I screamed as he launched me out of it, my knees slamming into the roof tiles of the Vault of Embers below the tower and the ice clinging to it sending me slipping away toward a deadly drop. With a curse, I drove my dagger into a gap between the tiles to stop my fall, willing the ice around me to melt as I tried to get purchase with my feet. Kaiser stared out from the window, glaring at
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