ly stopped before Wr

hoes, toward the knot of men gathered at the fence line

voice clipped and urgent, callin

ov

way, between two guards twice her size who let h

irt from a wound at her side that made Wren's whole body go cold on sight. The wound was worse

rio

eyes found Wren's immediately, sharp despite everythi

s hovering over the wound like touching it would make it worse and not touc

." One of the guards, low and

ave two minute

ng out on wet grass, she still managed to sound like she was

selessly against the wound, blood immed

id, voice cracking. "Any of it.

u have be

n't k

hould have been, weaker than it had ever been. "I kept you human as l

gizing and

Wren's panic like it was the only thing left she had ene

about my nam

ne. That's your blood. Your mo

hem, close enough that Wren could

said quietly. "

oking away from Wren. "I know exact

ren said. "Mar

you're alive. Has known for longer than tonight - he's been looki

n wh

something like recognition passing over her face

lready have it started, don'

jaw tightened instead,

d. "Marion, I don't u

costing more than the last. "Ask him what happens to a ma

pped for an entire

she talki

d Ronan, the fear turning into something sharper,

ence answer

ides, knuckles pale, like the question h

ing tonight," he said finally, low.

a woman pushed through the gathered guards, kit in hand, dr

ric away from the wound, and for one suspended second

p on her wri

. Mario

arely a whisper now

strength, p

mewhere past Wren's shoulder now instead of on her face. "There's another. Old

t? Marion,

r's hands

used.

rio

th

rio

lly looked up at Wren, said ever

said quietly. "I

stopped meaning anything the second Marion's chest stopped rising. She didn't mov

other noise around her - the guards murmuring, the wind, Ronan

d sprint in from the tree line

lp

d just cracked open in his face a second ago s

por

of it. Heat signatures, not ours. T

os

or Voss's crew. This

Marion's body still on the groun

t h

n't fi

at once, drawn by the same sound - low, rolling, closer

d the beams

line, dozens of them, too many to count in

running tow

already