Page 127 of Silver Bonds
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Through the window the forest is dark and quiet.
Somewhere in it, Knox is still working.
I close my eyes. The throb in my wounds slows with my heartbeat, steadying as my body finally gets to do what it needs to do, and exhaustion pulls at me from somewhere so deep it doesn't have a bottom.
Chase Valemont came to Everpine Academy to expose me.
Now he'll never leave.
I let myself go under, knowing morning will bring the questions and the Council and all the weight of what happened in that forest. Tonight we held it together. That has to be enough.
The hunt isn't over.
It's just beginning.
