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CassianThe silence after the fight was really loud.It was louder than the guns that had gone off in the ruined chapel.Smoke was coming in through the broken beams in streams. Moonlight was shining through the roof in white streaks, catching the dust and ash that was floating down like the remains of a prayer. The smell of burned incense was still in the air mixed with the smell of blood and the smell of explosives.I stood in the middle of the wreckage and listened in the silence.There were no footsteps coming from the hidden corridors. There were no whispered commands from the hunters who were hiding behind the walls. There were no breaths from the people who were dying. There was no heartbeat except for my slow one.The trap had been really clever.They had put charges under the stone floor with silver. They had carved symbols under the pews with consecrated sigil. They had hidden marksmen in the walls. They had used rumors to lure me in and they had used certainty to lure her i

CassianThe room was holding its breath with me.The stone pillars were leaning around us, some of them broken, with saints carved on them but their throats cut off. The marble floor was dirty with dust and blood. It was really quiet like the noise from the battle had been sucked out and it felt like the ruined hall was watching us to see what would happen next.Selene was lying on the ground where she had fallen.There was a lot of blood under her spreading out like a halo, seeping into the cracks in the stone. Her chest was already moving, just a little. When I put two fingers on her throat I could feel her pulse but it was weak.It was like a candle in the wind.One beat.Nothing.Then another.I had seen a lot of people die. Men begging for mercy. Women cursing. Kids who were too shocked to understand what was happening. Death is pretty efficient when you see it a lot. It's predictable like a door that only opens one way.Kneeling next to her, I found myself listening for each bea