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Chapter Thirty-Seven
“Take them out of here!” Caine shouted as he approached the rest of the Domineers crowded around the cluster of catapults. They only stared back at him curiously. “Did you not hear me?” he panted with anxious exhaustion.
“What’s going on?” one of the Domineers stepped forward. “Is it the Ravennites?” His question suddenly caused the others to glance this way and that.
“Just do as I say!” Caine fired back angrily. “Start moving the catapults. We’re taking them back to the camps.”
“What?” the Domineer asked in confusion. “I thought we were supposed to stay here until Ramon’s men arrived, so we could lead the catapults over the mountains and to the Citadel. That was the plan.”
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