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Please- please take care of her.' Alis.
From right by my ear, the other replied, 'Consider yourself very, very lucky that your High Lord was not here when we arrived. Your guards will have one hell of a headache when they wake up, but they're alive. Be grateful.' Mor.
Mor held me- carried me.
The darkness guttered long enough that I could draw breath, that I could see the garden door she walked toward. I opened my mouth, but she peered down at me and said, 'Did you think his shield would keep us from you? Rhys shattered it with half a thought.'
But I didn't spy Rhys anywhere- not as the darkness swirled back in. I clung to her, trying to breathe, to think.
'You're free,' Mor said tightly. 'You're free.'
Not safe. Not protected.
Free.
She carried me beyond the garden, into the fields, up a hill, down it, and into- into a cave-
I must have started bucking and thrashing in her arms, because she said, 'You're out; you're free,' again and again and again as true darkness swallowed us.
Half a heartbeat later, she emerged into sunlight- bright, strawberry-and grass-scented sunlight. I had a thought that this might be Summer, then-
Then a low, vicious growl split the air between us, cleaving even my darkness.
'I did everything by the book,' Mor said to the owner of that growl.
I was passed from her arms to someone else's, and I struggled to breathe, fought for any trickle of air down my lungs. Until Rhysand said, 'Then we're done here.'
Wind tore at me, along with ancient darkness.
But a sweeter, softer shade of night caressed me, stroking my nerves, my lungs, until I could at last get air inside, until it seduced me into sleep.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))