Instead, he notched Dain's arrow and pulled back the bowstring, aiming for the walnut. Prince Cardan ought to have been suspicious of this kindness, but he'd had little enough of the real thing to tell true from false. Then, if you miss, you can say that it was my arrow then went awry.' In truth, his brother intimidated him, but that only made him more scornful. “Too difficult? Better not to make the attempt? Those are the words of a coward,' Cardan said, full of childish bravado. She was screaming (I saved you, all those years it was me, I saved you, I was the only one who saved you, nobody but me) and above it Emily was wailing, stop it! stop it! you're hurting her! Then her small body was between Lilith and me, pushing Lilith away, but Lilith's hands were on her throat, (not you, you got none of it, ever, you were safe, safe, safe, SAFE) and I couldn't get up, my ribs were in agony, the world was spinning, but I got to my knees and I shouted, "Let her go!" because Lilith was shaking Emily back and forth so that her hair whipped and flew- and she did stop, for just an instant, Emily's pale, fragile throat in her hands, and the whole dark earth held its breath.” “I couldn't see her, a blackness hung before my eyes, but I felt her fall back and I felt her skin beneath my nails, her bones beneath my fingers, my beloved sister, my enemy, my protector, my betrayal-(you sent him to me!)-and then she was hitting me, shoving me to the ground, kicking my stomach, my side, my ribs, my head.
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