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Chapter 360 - Her Sacrifice

(Amaia)

Collectively everyone nods at the Queen. The air tastes of magic, and the wind picks up. 

Saiph's body lay motionless at the centre of the star-marked ground—the constellation of Orion etched in silver and obsidian. His scythe rests across his sternum, the steel clear, almost shining. 

I have begun to hate the damn thing. 

I kneel beside him. My wings shoot out, waving slowly behind me.

I press my palm to Saiph's cold cheek and whisper his name once, low and certain.

"You are not finished. You will return to me."

Around me, the circle of my mates, brother and the king and the queen remains firm. 

Queen Adrnia stands tall, raising both her hands. She begins to hum, "By the root and the crown, by the blood I bore and the son I lost. Return to us. Open the celestial realms, the moon goddess, the stars…."

King Orion raises his hands and ice erupts not in shards but in a perfect dome, crystalline and seamless, sealing us all inside a frozen cathedral, a perfect shield. 

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