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“There are probably more.”

Magnus eyed him suspiciously. “Och, then we needs tae go fast.” He went to drag the last body down to our gear.

Suddenly from the woods more men on horseback, charging from the trees, bearing down on Magnus.

“Magnus! Run!”

Tyler pulled me behind him.

I turned away so he couldn’t see what I was doing and twisted the two halves of the vessel so it hummed to life.

Magnus was hurrying down the slope dragging a body behind.

“Hurry, Magnus, hurry!” My heart was racing.

Four horses were thundering behind him.

He yelled, “Say the numbers, Kaitlyn!”

He reached me, dropped the body onto our pile, and wrapped the reins of the horses around his arms. I said the numbers. He threw his arms around me as the soldiers roared down the slope.

I reached the end of the numbers as horse hooves were about to crash down on us and then I felt the ripping of my body as the vessel hurled me through time.

23 - KAITLYN

The pain was so intense my body was tight frigid stiff while my mind writhed in agony.

Magnus’s voice close by, “Kaitlyn?” I peeled my eyes open. Frosty breath came from my mouth in puffs. Part of my rigidity and pain was shivering because of the ice forming on my skin. Magnus tucked a wool blanket around my face, tight. He pushed the ends of it under my hips and around my feet.

He pulled another blanket around his shoulders, sitting beside me, head bowed, icy air around his cheeks. I slid into unconsciousness again.

24 - KAITLYN

Ididn’t think the pain was gone, or if it was it had been replaced by a new pain. Freezing cold air pain. A chill that had entered my bones and was making it hard to think. Like frozen all through. Magnus’s voice came to me from a distance. “...who are ye?!!! What are ye doin’ here?” He sounded enraged.

I tried to peel open my eyes.

Tyler’s voice. “...I was checking on the property, man, what the fuck?”

Magnus and Tyler were arguing. I groaned, opened my eyes and tried to focus. Magnus was standing over Tyler, a wad of Tyler’s shirt in his hand. Red in the face, yelling. Scary yelling. “Tell me what ye are doin’! Are ye a brother? Dost ye plan tae kill me?”

“No — what? No.”

Magnus shook Tyler. “What dost ye want with Kaitlyn? Why are ye surroundin’ her?”

“I’m not, what?”

Magnus drew back his fist. “Tell me what ye want with her or I will kill ye where ye lay. Tis nae difference tae me, ye are a dead man now any way ye think on it.”

Tyler’s hands were up trying to protect his face. I groaned again and struggled to my feet. It was so freaking cold out here. I shuffled over to where Magnus was standing over Tyler. “Magnus? S-s-s-stop—” My voice was weak and shivery.

His eyes were so full of fury they didn’t see me.

“Stop.” I grabbed his sleeve on his fighting arm.

He shook my hand off. “What dost ye want with her? Explain it, now, or ye will lose your life because of it.”

Okay this was getting heated. Magnus was red-faced with the look he carried when he found the men who abducted me.