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I left the embracing and cheering and made my way over to the knights. I reached down and picked up my sword where I'd dropped it. The magic in my veins hummed at my fingertips like a livewire as I walked over to the edge of the protective shield.
"What have you done?" Lance demanded. "We can't get out."
"Loren, you have to undo it," said Gawain.
But I didn't know how. So far all I'd been able to do with magic was make things go boom. I didn't know how to reel it back in.
"Loren, don't do anything but what you were told," said Arthur from the other side of the invisible shield. "Keep the shield up. Protect the people."
The man stood proud in the face of a weapon that would rend him mutilated at best, dead at worst. He stared down at Erwen who, although tall, barely came up to Arth
