“We cannot leave him here,” the young woman protested. Dark Tidings cleaned the blood from Palis’s sword and slipped it back into its scabbard. He grunted as he hefted Palis’s body onto his back and across his shoulders. It was then that Yserria noticed her liege was injured. “You are hurt!” she exclaimed. “I was distracted and failed to avoid a crossbow bolt. I took one to the shoulder. I will live,” the wraith said quietly. When Rezkin had glanced back and saw Palis go down, he had been suddenly overcome with feelings he could not comprehend. Even now they were threatening to strangle him.
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