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Chapter 4

I'm real, Matthias.

Wake up.

No, Matthias, no!

Aslo shook Matthias, then grabbed his face.

He looked into his friend's distant gaze and saw with brutal clarity that the light had left. Panic threatened to overcome him, but he knew he had to make it right.

Somehow he had to fix Matthias.

He looked into the trees and saw a distant purple glow.

It was far from the road, too far.

He couldn't leave Matthias.

If more of those creatures lurked nearby, they might take Matthias away.

Then how would he save him? Matthias was the chosen one. It was his destiny to save the world.

He couldn't die on the first day of their journey. The world needed Matthias to live. Aslo needed

him to live. Aslo pushed a creature's corpse off, then waited.

Magdalet would return. She was the high sorceress. Of course she would return. As he surveyed

the carnage, his gaze roved over the pools of blood, milky in the firelight and smelling of

tannin, save for the one human corpse beneath him. Its blood

was dark and held the sour scent of metal. He spied a familiar sword lying just inches

beyond the reach of Matthias' outstretched hand, the fallen Savior's fingers, still gripping

the dirt where they had searched for the weapon.

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