LUCIAN I forgot how to breathe. Hot tears sprang to my eyes. He wasn't waking up.He's dead.This is all my fault.If I hadn't trusted Sterling and followed him to the mountain, I wouldn't fall in his trap, and Elias would still be alive. What will I tell Riene when she hears of his death?How do I justify all these?I crumpled on Elias' lifeless form, my body racking with tears, my knees sinking into the blood filled dirt.Suddenly, I heard footsteps behind us, and just before I turned around, preparing myself for a fight, bright light shone from ground, almost blinding my vision but I managed to catch sight of a black cloak before my surroundings changed and I was back at the mountain Sterling led me to, where it all began, holding Elias's body in my arms.It was that guy who was different from the surrounding Dark Elves. He saved me once again.Elias’s blood was still hot on my hands. I had him cradled against me, breathing him in.I'd seen men die before, but it's not one
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