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Chapter 14

Alanna was out of the ball quickly with a trail of people behind her, her red dress flying out behind her like fire.

She moved fast. She left George and Thayet to tend to the banquet, while she and Jonathan, who had magic. Onua, healers and Miri and Evin brought up the rear. They had to get to Daine and fast.

Thayet and George cloaked the horses with magic to make them ride longer. They road the horses hard into the night and early morning was only a few hours away. It would take them an hour to get to Daine and Numair.

It had been 20 minutes since Numair had spoken to Alanna, and was getting anxious

"Daine? You have to stay awake. I need you to drink this to slow the poison, please." Numair held the vial to her mouth. She coughed on it a little bit but it went down.

Daine was stuck between being delirious, in shock and unconscious.

"Numair that stuff is horrid" she said with a face, with slow motions. She was in a lot of pain.

He smiled. His magelet never ceased to surprise him. She was trying to make him not worry, but at the same time she was still upset with him and furious.

While she laid there, unable to move, she decided that now was better than any other time to talk to him.

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"Numair?"

"Hmmm?"

"Why did you come out here?"

Numair just turned to look in her eyes with sadness seeping through him.

"Did you come out here to say goodbye? Did you want to make it worse? What?" she said fighting the tears that were attempting to fall.

"Daine...I..."

"Are you trying to hurt me more? Are you trying to show me how much you despise me by driving me out of Tortall, my home?"

"No! Of course not...Daine...I had to find you. I couldn't...." he stopped. It was hard for him to tell her how wrong he had been.

"You couldn't..." she coughed on the blood a little bit. It was getting harder for her to stay awake.

"Daine, this should wait till later when you're healed."

"If I make it to that point." She said angry and frustrated. She was keeping the animals away from her so they wouldn't get stuck in the hole with her. Keeping her magic going and fighting to stay awake and trying to push the pain away was taking a lot out of her.

Numair didn't know if she would last much longer.

And right as Daine passed out, Numair heard the beat of many hoofs coming closer.

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