Kieran did not let go of my arms.He held me upright on the road with both hands gripping me steady and his eyes moving over my face with the focused intensity of someone taking inventory of damage. Around us the column had stopped moving. Wolves from both packs stood at a careful distance, watching their Sovereign on her knees on the road with the particular silence of people who did not know whether to help or look away."How bad," Kieran said quietly."I am upright," I said."You are upright because I am holding you."I could not argue that. The North-light drain was sitting behind my eyes like a stone and my legs had not fully decided to work yet. The Blood-Bind was still there but thin, like a fire that had burned down to its last coal. I needed time and rest and neither of those things were available on this road."I can walk," I said."In a moment," he said. He did not move his hands.I let him hold me because the alternative was the ground and the ground was not acceptable in
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