He’d then stayed for over an hour and explained much of what had happened after I’d bolted back into the labyrinth. I’d been sick with guilt when he’d told me how all three of them had nearly died at Belikon’s hands while they bought me time to find the coin. He’d called me crazy when I’d apologized for taking so long and said that it had felt like a miracle when the wind had swept away all of the death magic and allowed their swords to channel again. Madra had fled through the quicksilver immediately. Belikon had put up a prodigious fight, but the second Lorreth’s angel breath had torn out of
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