Remi POV"Isolde."Her name came out before I could stop it. Loud. Across the courtyard.She heard it. Her eyes found mine immediatelyThe creature's grip on her arm. The blood moon overhead making everything red.She was looking at me. . The Chimera's fang — one of them, curved and long and pressed to her throat where the pulse was strongest — not breaking skin. Yet.Her eyes found mine.She was shaking.Not much. Not in a way that looked like panic. More like someone holding very still against something their body wanted to do."It's fine," I said. My voice came out steady somehow. "I'm going to get you out of this.""I know," she said.She held my gaze and didn't look away.I'm okay, her eyes said.She wasn't okay.The thin line of red where the fang pressed told me that.I pushed.Everything I had. Every time the runes had flared in danger — the corridor with Anatoria, the creatures in the forest . I reached for all of it and pushed.My arms lit up.Half a second.Then dark.I trie
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