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Sienna looked up at Finn, tears welling in her eyes. “We have to close the borders. For good this time. We have to shut the gates and stop the worlds bleeding into each other. It’s the only way.”
Finn reeled back and stood up, pacing the tent. “But then the plague will be trapped here. What if it spreads amongst my people?”
Visions of the creatures she had seen within the shadow-weave filled Sienna’s mind, taunting her with the promise of more pain. But now she could see that pain reflected on Finn’s face. She had crossed the border thinking that somehow they could find a way to be together, to save his world, and now her only plan was to shut the door and leave him behind in the path of destruction.
“They can stop the plague as surely as they’re spreading it. But they won’t if it r
