A/N: first of all hi! this is my first story, and i love BMT! all i can ask is that you please,please, please review this ! thank you and enjoy.
disclaimer: i do not own the books, the characters or the first line, they are owned by trudi canavan.
The knife was buried deep in his chest.
Sonea couldn't breath. She didn't know what to do. She knew she needed to heal him but how with the ichani closing in she had not the time to heal akkarin.
''sonea, you cannot save me I am not gong to make it, give me your hand''
''akkarin, I must heal you, I wont let you die!'' she cried all the same she gave him her hand to hold and she felt him send magic into her, she heard cruel laughter and whipped round to see kariko with a look of malicious glee spreading across his face.
'' not so great now is he, your high lord has fallen and left his precious but weak apprentice behind'' he sneered at sonea.
'' you have not taken him away from me yet!'' and with that she threw her arms wide sent a wave of power at kariko in the form of a forcestrike, as it touched karikos shield the barrier that had been protecting him shattered. For a few seconds his face was contorted in an expression of pure hatred before soneas second strike hit and killed him.
The two remaining ichani were looking at each other with uncertainty in their eyes, sonea knew she had just a few moments but risked it and turned back to akkarin. But she was too late. He lay unconscious and with no heart beat sonea began to sob fearing she would be left alone when he had promised her he wouldn't.
she placed one hand on the handle and another sought for any patch of bare skin she could find and placed her other hand on it. Slowly she began to pull the knife out whilst at the same time healing the flesh as soon as the knife moved. She healed the flesh all the arteries and veins to make it all healed properly.
Sonea felt a tiny spark of energy coming from akkarin and soneas hopes soared, she was about to continue healing him when she felt a strong strike touch her shield and knew It had been only a matter of time before another ichani decided to take her on.
As the second ichani started to rain strikes upon her she saw a shower of heatstrikes falling on them from above she glanced quickly behind and saw lord Balkan and dorrien standing on the university roof. It's no use she thought their strikes were not strong enough to be of a danger to the ichani.
Then summoning all her power and rage at them for daring to destroy the place that was her home she sent an extremely powerful heatstrike at each ichani and was pleased to see their shields shatter and the strikes burnt through them killing both. But her moment of triumph did not last long, as she remembered what she had been told she hurried to karriko and slashed his neck with a stone and started to take the power that was left in his body. Sonea then turned and did the same to the other ichani.
Sonea then ran back to akkarins side and did what she did before, going slowly and little by little took the knife out whist healing the wound left behind. When she finally removed the knife completely she felt numb, she moved back towards akkarin and pressed her palms hard against his temples. She created a door into his mind and found the tiny spark that was what was left of his energy. Sonea sent all the love she had for him into the gaping space where his consciousness had been and filled it with memories. She gave him the memory of their first kiss, behind the waterfall, the run from the ichani in the pass and at the thieves den.
Then when she thought all hope was lost she felt a stirring beneath her and she sensed his heart beginning to beat, she sent the memories and feelings more rapidly into his head as his consciousness grew.
''sonea'' akkarin whispered weakly, sonea leaned forward and realised that he had not much strength, she took his hand and sent steady trickle of strength into him and the colour returned to his face. She leaned forward and kissed him and his lips curled up into a smile.
'' lord Balkan is coming'' he said. Sonea looked over her shoulder and saw the warrior coming towards them followed by dorrien, and another magician.
" I don't care" she leant forward to kiss him again and their lips met as the magicians came up behind them she could feel their discomfort and heard one or two gasps of disbelief escape some. She turned around to face the advancing magicians and she suddenly recognised the other magician and ran forward.
''rothen! I thought you were dead!''
'' not quite yet sonea'' he laughed then sobered '' you have changed so much, I can hardly recognise you, you have done well and saved kyralia''
'' no not by myself I had help'' she replied. She looked up at his face '' oh rothen I have missed you dearly'' sonea stepped onto tiptoe and hugged him with tears in her eyes.
Behind her sonea could hear dorrien tending to akkarin and was grateful for it, what she needed right then was sleep that was all she needed. Blackness washed over her and she could no longer hear the others and did not care and she collapsed beside akkarin.
