FIVE: Sa

rina

hispered her

rbrush just beyond Blackthorn's eastern ridge, w

for silence and protection one of the fe

pulsed faintly in her boot

every crow's caw overhead f

ther's

oodline she'd never wanted,

ping over the horizon hit the remains of a cottage stone wall

r mother had died,o

aint metallic smell. On the charred wall, she saw

by f

ma

n't died in a

been m

un

floor creake

glowing pulse forming in her palm,but the pe

as K

ousin?" she said cool

o the light, his d

o see if you

would

own, you don't

narrowed

you

ow it." His v

ightborn. The last living daughter of the lu

her. And now t

took a

re ly

m n

t a small, showing a memory stone. "She le

gers tw

ay. Should've run strai

she took

rld around her shifted and she w

a Vale (Sabar

d find this,

ing in the memo

ar power. Sabarina's throat clenched. She was olde

rong people," Althea said softl

. was not the warlock the world th

breed power

my

s heart t

l twist you. Use your blood to break the seals guarding

. Her mother turn

one who claims

That

e dropped the robe l

was w

u k

n. That's why I'v

me," she w

like

a step

om Lucas. From the Forswo

aws ex

away f

s time,

as

e crimson moon ris

tonight felt heavier, thicker,th

door it was Kieran, his second-i

It's the

htened. "Wha

was spotted with her. She returne

past him, h

r's tent. Her arms were scratc

n't loo

oked r

he asked, graspin

nt, believe she carries the bloodline of

ime to debate. The Forsworn are after h

red. "And what do

raised

ow down before I let them tou

m fell

tepped through t

el

ar

ing a bloodied

truth," he said.

stepping in fro

ext words sile

raitor among

he sigil on

can pro

the o

ected. The one h

other," she

en knew e

blood

used

ws about the Vault.

, shielding her from

to get to the

hesi

she said. "My mo

claim to love me. That

s fr

think t

a didn'

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stood before the

nchanted fire. Tension crackled like

us to believe she carries the bloodline of

ime to debate. The Forsworn are after h

red. "And what do

raised

ry down before I let them tou

m fell

tepped through t

el

ar

ing a bloodied

truth," he said.

stepping in fro

ext words sile

raitor among

he sigil on

can pro