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I gasped as searing pain ripped through me.
The bond was viciously ripped away, leaving a craterous hole inside my mind and body. All of the grief that Sion had taken away came rushing back, overwhelming my senses. I fell out of my chair and crawled on my hands and knees, trying in vain to escape. The members of the Assembly stood and watched my suffering, judgment in their eyes. Except for Tyrval. She stared at me with pity.
Like something from my imagination, but the entire room shook and the floor split open underneath me. I tumbled through the crack and fell for what felt like an eternity before I found myself at Rory’s feet. I breathed in and out heavily. It was hard to imagine how I had lived before my bond with Sion. The emptiness that pervaded every part of my being was unima
