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Battle Within

NOEL (2)

How dare he.

I'd heard him. How dare he insult Ezra like that, when he was nothing compared to the Firstblade? He hadn't been there— hadn't been there when I'd been pleading, watching him fight for his life that day in the blood-covered snow.

He knew nothing.

For the first time, the anger feels like it might consume me alive.

"Father."

"You will not touch the Firstblade." I hiss, the point of my knife gleaming in the winter sun. And my father snatches his hand back, the surprise in his eyes turning into a flash of fear.

Then rage, when he recognizes his own son.

But for the first time I'm not trembling. Instead I'm looking him straight in the eyes, my knife a flicker of silver as I sheathe it again.

My voice is steel.

"You can do anything you want with me."

"But I won't let you mock him like this."

Not when you don't even know what he's been through.

My father looks furious, his face burning red. Of course— I'd humiliated him in front of all the other councilors, people who h
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