Moraine fell from my grasp as I lurched for Dalia instead, the blade which had been aimed at me cutting deep into her throat as she threw herself between me and the man who I had given myself to completely like a fucking fool. I had caused this. It was all on me and yet now both of my sisters were going to pay the fatal price of my stupidity. I screamed as the three of us fell beneath the force of Cayde’s strike, his feral cry of murderous rage echoing off of the walls as he ripped his blade free of my sister’s throat and Dalia’s blood splattered my face. “Dalia!” I screamed, reality catching
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