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in them. Elian w/hawthorne in stakes rendering him unable to heal. Elian look at Caradock like he was god, Caradock glamour fading & looked more like Elian, same eyes, same face. Elian smiled w/joy & said name she’d only heard in his nightmares…Evander. They didn’t catch Hudson.

Caradock took her knife w/blood. He wasn’t real Caradock, he using glamour of Caradock. So who is this guy? If she refuses help him, her friends will b killed. She say she can alone. He tsk her for lying, soldiers bring in Jax/Elian w/fresh wounds. They look at her w/agony as saw her tied to throne. Their faces beaten, eyes swollen & bruised, teeth missing, Jax eyepatch gone which show scar tissue w/fresh gashes

her dark winter blood to summon dark winter ancestors, his necromancers will do rest. Her & her sisters were descendants of 1st witches & their dark winter lovers, plural. Does he plan resurrect dark winter ancestors into bodies of midnight soldiers? The existing dark soldiers that invading now would have no choice but surrender unless they slaughtered their own family members. What will he do if she refuses help him

She tell Haley to get his blood & either Haley makes it back to her so she can make a spell to blackmail him or Haley doesn’t get the blood, Caradock keeps Haley help win war & then he’ll grant her pass to midnight. Haley is weapon Caradock mentioned that dark winter won’t b able to defeat. Caradock had been expecting her all along & rolled out his version of red carpet to lead her to his trap. He tell her use

will. Haley wake up, tied w/spelled rope to Caradock throne. He tell her she not there get his blood, she there to help him win the war. She say she not dark winter. Malantha betrayed her, why send Haley get his blood when she just turn Haley over to Caradock. He say Malantha doesn’t have children. Why does she need his blood? As blackmail to reverse his banishment of her from midnight. So Malantha hedged her bets.

need go now. Get to throne room, Gem will get Haley, Jax/Elian get soldiers & Caradock. Go into room, midnight soldiers pointing bow/arrows at Jax/Elian. 1/2 bows have stakes for Elian, 1/2 bolts w/devil’s trap sigils. When one would hit Jax he’d go down immobilized. Gem betrayed them. She tell them kneel. Elian say he trusted her, she say nothing in midnight is as should b. She go to soldiers, tell them fire at

Elian didn’t even know that, only her sisters did & they didn’t know she there. Goddess Malantha told him. Caradock ask her if she gonna b what he needs? He kiss her, gold smoke flew by her, room spun & she black out. Jax fists E/S shirt, where he been? E/S better have Haley & not f’ed this up or he’ll throw him over wall & feed him to ghouls. E/S heart in knots, he’s been there all night, he/Gem been watch

is Caradock? Why did he kill shifters? Why did he act like he didn’t know her when danced? She tell him she hates him then kisses him. He lay her on dias, kiss incredible from man she’s loved most her life. She knew it wasn’t Elian, she push him back, who hell is he? His face turn back to Caradock face, look her w/menace. He say kiss him like that again daughter of dark winter & he’ll b anyone she want him b

hold her close, he’s hard. If death is cost of treason, what’s punishment for thief stealing his blood? He show her vial, drop it & crush it. She ask for duel to death. no. big scary fairy afraid of witch? He smiles at her, his face changed, violet eyes turned silver. It was fae glamour, it’s Elian. She run to him, throw arms around him, was worried, then slaps him for make her worry. She thought he dead. Where

She’s not roughed up, clothes still on & they hadn’t taken her bloodstone ring. She in black room, dias before her, Caradock sit on throne of skulls, bones & obsidian. Door opens, hear dragging, smell wet fur & blood. 2 beasts wolf shifters? caught mid shift, heads/torso of men, arms/legs something else, emaciated. Caradock decapitates both them. She curses him out, he swing sword to cut her ropes. He grab her &