| The music was their only sanctuary of harmony these last few days, but Devin knew that only really applied to the three of themWhat some of the others scattered about the city were doing for release he couldn't imagine
"Something's wrong!" Blind Rinaldo said abruptly beside him, tilting his head as if sniffing the airAlessan stopped sketching the distrada terrain on the tablecloth and looked up quicklySandre had already half-risen from his chair
Alais hurried up to the tableEven before she spoke Devin felt a finger of dread touch him
"Catriana's gone!" she said, fighting to keep her voice lowHer eyes flicked from her father to see by chloe bag Devin, then rested on Alessan
"What? How?" Rovigo said sharply"We would have had to see her when she came down, surely?"
"The back stairs outside," Alessan saidHis hands, Devin, noticed, had suddenly flattened on the tabletopThe Prince stared at Alais"What else?"
The girl's face was white"She changed her clothesI don't understand whyShe bought a black silk gown and some jewelry in the market this afternoonI was going to ask her about it but I I didn't want to presumeShe's so hard to ask questions ofAll the things she bought
"A silk gown?" Alessan said incredulously, his voice rising"What in Morian's name ?"
But Devin already vintage omega watches knew
Alessan hadn't been with them that morning, neither had SandreThey had no way of understandingA bone-deep fear dried his mouth and began hammering at his heartHe stood up, tipping over his chair, spilling his wine
"Oh, Catriana," he said"Catriana, no!" Stupidly, fatuously, as if she were in the room, and could still be stopped, still be kept among them, dissuaded from going out into the dark alone with her silk and jewels, with her unfathomable courage and her pride
"What? Devin, tell me, what is it?" Sandre, voice like a knifeOnly turned, the grey eyes bracing for pain
"She's gone to the castle," Devin said flatly"She's gone omega ladies watch to kill Anghiar of BarbadiorShe thinks that will start the war
Even as he spoke he was moving, rational thought quite gone, something deeper than that, infinitely deeper, driving him, though if she had reached the castle already there was no hope, no hope at all
He was flying when he reached the doorEven so, Alessan was right beside him, with Rovigo only a step behindDevin knocked someone down as they burst into the darkness
Eanna, show grace, he prayed silently, over and over as they raced toward the risen moonsGoddess of Light, let it not be like this
He said nothing thoughHe sped toward the castle in the dark, fear in his prada logo heart like a living thing, bringing the terrible knowledge of death
Devin knew how fast he could run, had prided himself on his speed all his lifeBut moving as if possessed, scarcely touching the ground, Alessan was with him when they reached the Governor's CastleThey careened around a corner side by side and came to the garden wall and there they stopped, looking upward past the branches of a huge, spreading sejoia treeThey could hear Rovigo come up behind them, and someone else further backThey did not turn to seeThey were both looking at the same thing
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