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A crux sweeps into the courtyard, crushing several soldiers beneath its weight. Ransom shoves Odessa behind a wooden road spike before moving to confront the creature. One of its talons severs Halston’s leg, and Tillia strips off her belt to fashion a tourniquet.
Luella tends to a wounded man and can’t get away in time. Ramsey screams for her to flee, but the crux catches her and kills her. Ransom attacks the beast in a fury, but it throws him off and flies into the night.
Odessa reaches the house and finds Evie hiding under a bed with Faze. She gathers her weapons, her journal, and the three books from the secret cellar. As she leads Evie out the back, Banner blocks their path with his sword drawn. He knows Ransom is the king’s son and blames him for his family’s deaths. Banner plans to kill Odessa because she’s the person Ransom loves most.
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Banner lunges at Odessa, and she slices his arm and thigh. When Zavier appears, Banner hurls a blade into Zavier’s stomach. Odessa stabs Banner and kills him. Zavier tells Evie he loves her before losing consciousness. Odessa sounds her warning whistle and flees with Evie.
Ransom intercepts Odessa and Evie near the barracks as the crux returns. He hands Odessa his metal arm cuff, the secret map to Allesaria, and tells her to head toward Treow. If he doesn’t join them within two days, she’s to take Evie out of the kingdom. Ransom trusts her with the future of his people.
Odessa and Ransom tell each other they love one another before they separate. She runs but looks back and sees the crux snatch Ransom into the clouds. Brother Dime waits in the hidden passage with her horse and leads them into the forest.
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Ransom walks through the bloody wreckage and finds Cathlin standing over his mother’s covered body. Halston and Zavier survived but are in the infirmary. Ransom moves toward a lone corpse in the center of the courtyard. The crux had carried him into the sky, and he drove his sword into its heart before they crashed to the ground. Ransom only regained consciousness at sunrise.
The crux turns out to be a woman with red hair that matches Odessa’s. Cathlin admits she’s never seen or heard of a crux doing such a thing. Ransom cuts a lock of her hair, tucks it into his vest beside Zavier’s circlet, and orders a soldier to burn the remains. When Cathlin asks where he’s going, he says he’s going to find his wife.
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